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A GUIDE-BOOK OF BOSTON 
FOR PHYSICIANS 



A Guide-Book of Boston 
for Physicians 

Prepared for the 

FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL SESSION 

OF THE 
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

June fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth 
1906 

EDITED BY 
DR. WALTER L. BURRAGE 




BOSTON 

The Merrymount Press 
MDCCCCVI 



Copyright, 1906, by Robert Bayley Osgood 
All rights reserved 



fiS- 



LIBRARY of CONGRESS 

Two CoDies Received 

JUN 1 1906 

oDyright Entry 

CLASS 'Ct^XXc. No. 
COPY B. 



W;: 



D. B. Updike, Tlie Menyniouiit rivss, Boston 



INTRODUCTION 

This Guide ivas prepared with the hope that, hy its use, our 
visitors may derive the maximum itifoimation aud pleasure 
with the minimum expenditure of time and energy. 

We have tried not only to mention- the points of histoi'ical 
interest, in which Boston and its vicinity are so rich, but also 
to give the most ircent data of present-day Boston. 

Many places of great interest have received only passing 
notice, as an extended description could not be given in a booh 
of this kind. Pai^ticidar attention, hozcever, has been paid to 
the various medical institutions and hospitals, an index of 
which may be found on pages 169-171. 

The illustrations have been pi^epared zvith care, and ivill, we 
hope, be a pleasure as well as an aid. The maps are the most 
?'ecent and trustzi)orthy . 

Bosto?i's streets are proverbially difficult and tortuous, and 
if loe shall have succeeded in making the crooked ways 
straight for any of you, zve shall feel that our efforts have 
been amply repaid. 

Dr. George S. C. Badger Dr. William P. Graves 

Dr. J. D. Barney Dr. F. C. Kidner 

Dr. Walter L. Burrage Dr. Robert B. Osgood 

Dr. Arthur L. Chute Dr. C. C. Simmons 

Suh-Covuniltee on Printing and Programmes 



CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Historical Sketch of Boston 1 

How TO FIND THE Way about the City 12 

Central or Business District 18 

South End 36 

Back Bay 53 

West End 86 

North End 105 

Charlestown 113 

East Boston 116 

South Boston ' 117 

Dorchester 119 

ROXBURY 121 

Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury 128 

Brookline 131 

Cambridge 135 

North Shore: Salem and Marblehead 140 

South Shore: Plymouth and Quincy 145 

Lexington and Concord 150 

Points of Interest reached by the Boston Ele- 
vated Railway 154 

Some Boston Churches 158 

Some Boston Hotels 16 1 

Theatres 163 

Places of Amusement 164 

Restaurants 165, 166 

Index of Hospitals and Medical Institutions 169 

Index 172 

Alphabetical List of Advertisers 185 

Classified List of Advertisers 186 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Map of Old and New Boston 


PAGE 


Old South Church, the First Kings Chapel and Beacon Hill 




in 1742 


2 


Boston Stone 


5 


North Station 


13 


South Station 


14 


Old South Church 


18 


Old Corner Book Store 


19 


King's Chapel 


20 


The Winthrop Tomb 


21 


John Hancock Monument 


21 


Franklin Monument 


22 


Park Street Church 


22 


The Frog Pond 


25 


" The Long Path,'' Boston Common 


25 


Shaw Monument 


26 


John Hancock House 


26 


State House 


27 


Franklin s Press 


30 


Faneuil Hall 


31 


Old State House and Scene of Boston Massacre 


SS 


Council Chamber, Old State House 


34 


T Wharf 


S5 


Boston Dispensan/ 


37 


Old Boston Dispensary 


38 


St. Elizabetlis Hospital 


39 


Boston City Hospital and Tent Wards 


40 


Boston City Hospital, Administration Building 


44 


Boston City Hospital, Nurses' Home 


47 


Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital 


50 


Public Garden Pond 


5S 


Washington Statue in Public Garden 


54 


Father Monument in Public Garden 


54 


First Church in Boston 


55 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Leif Ericson Statue 5i^ 

First Baptifit Church 51 

Natural Historij Building 58 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 59 

Trinity Church 60 

Art Museum 6l 

Public Library 62 

New " Old South ' ' Church 64 

Boston Medical Library 66 

Fenway Court 68 

Simmons College 68 

Christian Science Church 69 

Horticultural Hall 70 

Symphony Hall 70 

Children s Hospital 71 

Conservatory of Music 72 

Tufts College Medical School 72 

Holden Chapel in Cambridge 15 

Massachusetts Medical College, 1815 77 

Harvard Medical School, 1883-1906 81 

House of the Good Sainaritan 84 

Boston Lying-in Hospital 87 

Massachusetts General Hospital, 1831 89 

First Public Demonstration of Surgical Anaesthesia 91 

Harvard Medical School, New Buildings 93 

Massachusetts General Hospital, Bulfinch Building 94 

Massachusetts General Ho.spital, Zander Room 96 
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School 

in 1852 9S 

Eye and Ear Injirmary 100 

Women's Gymnasium, Charlcsbank 101 

New Can/bridge Bridge 10- 

Louisburg Square 1 03 

Relief Station, of the Boston City Hospital 10() 

Christ Church 107 

Boston Floating Hospital 110 



ILLUSTRATIONS xi 

PAGE 

The Coihsiitution 1 1 4 

New Drij Dock, Navy Yard 114 

Bunker Hill Momnncnt 115 

Perkins Institution for the Blind 117 

Carnei) Hosjntal 118 

First Parish Church, Meeting-House Hill 119 

Parting Stone 122 

Statue of Joseph Warren in Roxhury 125 

Free Hospital for Women 133 

Harvard Hall and Johnston Gate 135 

Statue of John Harvard 136 

The Washington Elm 137 

The Stadium 137 

The Longfellow House 138 

The Lowell House 138 

Stillman Infirmary 139 

St. Michael's Church, Marblehead 142 

Ames Surriase Well 142 

Hawthorne s Birthplace 143 

Salem Custom House 143 

Birthplace of John Adams 145 

Dorothy Quincy House 146 

Plymouth Rock 148 

Statue of Captain John Parker 1 50 

Minute-Man, Concord 151 

JFno-/i/ Tavern 152 

Maps 

Mr/y; of Business District, North and West Ends 18, 19 

Map of Boston including the Back Bay, South End and 

part of Ro.rbury 56, 57 

Map of Grecder Boston and Surrounding Country l66, l67 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF BOSTON 

IN 1621, the year following the landing of the Pilgrims, 
the doughty Captain Myles Standish, with ten compan- 
ions, set sail from Plymouth to explore the shores of 
the Bay at the northward and to secure the friendship 
of the Massachusetts Indians. It is thought that he landed on 
the three-hilled peninsula called "Shawmutt/' which, accord- 
ing to some authorities in the Indian language, signified "Near 
the Neck," or, '^'^ Where there is going by boat;" and according 
to others, "Living Waters," for the springs of the peninsula 
offered the chief inducement for the selection of this site for 
a settlement. A little later Robert Gorges, son of Sir Fernando 
Gorges, reached these shores. W^ith him was one Thomas Mor- 
ton, who settled at Merrymount, now in the city of Quincy, 
and Samuel Maverick, who founded a home on Noddle's Is- 
land, East Boston. Still another with Gorges was William 
Blackstone, a graduate of Cambridge University, the pioneer 
and only white settler in Boston for several years after l625. 
He is a somewhat shadowy figure, who dwelt near a famous 
boiling spring on the western slope of Beacon Hill, one of the 
three hills of the town. Spring Lane, off lower Washington 
Street, marks the location of another early spring. 

The town was founded in l630, during the reign of Charles I, 
by English colonists sent out by the "Governor and Com- 
pany of Massachusetts Bay in New England." John Winthrop, 
who had been chosen governor to lead the expedition of the 
Bay colonists to the New World, had arrived in Salem the 
previous June, bearing with him the Charter of I629, which 
transferred for the first time the control of the colony from 
England to New England. Salem not })roving to their liking, 
the colonists came to Charlestown, where they made the first 
settlement, crossing the river in a few months to Trimount, 
the more desirable site. The order of the founding of the town 
was adopted by the Court of Assistants sitting in the Gover- 
nor's house in Charlestown on September 17, 1630. The chief 



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members of the company came from Boston in Lincolnshire, 
hence the name given to the new town. At first the settlement 
was called "Trimountaine/' from the original name of Sentry 
or Beacon Hill, it having, before it was levelled years later, 
three separate peaks. 

The outlines of the old town are shov/n on the map on the op- 
posite page. It included seven hundred and eighty-three acres 
of solid land and marshes, and the shore was much cut up by 
bays and inlets. A narrow neck of land, often overflowed by the 
tides, connected the peninsula with the mainland at Roxbury. 
I The waters of the harbor came 

into the town dock at the head 
of the "Great Cove," where 
Dock Square is now, and the 
Charles River formed a large 
bay to the west, afterwards 
known as "Back Bay," at the 
present time filled in. 

The South Bay, an arm of 
the sea now cutting off South 
Boston from Boston Proper, is 
the remnant of the original 
large body of water which oc- 
cupied this region. A ferry of 
rowboats was established in 
1637 connecting Charlestown 
with the town, and for one 
hundred and fifty years, until 
the first bridge was built, this was the only means of commu- 
nication. The ferry was worth forty pounds a year to the ferry- 
man in those early years, and soon became a source of income 
to Harvard College, being given to the college by the Court. 
William Wood, an educated young Englishman, who visited 
the settlement in l630, wrote of it: 

"Boston is two miles North-east from Roxberry: His situa- 
tion is very pleasant, being a Peninsula, hem'd in on the South- 
side with the bay of Roxberry, on the North-side with Charles- 




THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH 
THE FIRST king's CHAPEL 
AND BEACON HILL IN 1742 




BOSTON 
The solid black represents the part which has been filled. A large portion of what is now 
the principal Business District was orijrinally covered by water and was connected with the 
mainland by a very narrow neck. The Cambridge side of Charles River has also been filled 
quite extensively. 



From Guide to Metropolitan Boston 



Copyrighted, 1 899, by George H. Pf^alker Gf Co., Boston 



guidp: to boston s 

rivei% the Marshes on the backe-side^ being not halfe a quarter 
of a mile over: so that a littel fencing will secure their cattel 
from the Woolues. ... It being a Necke and bare of wood 
they are not troubled with three great annoyances of Woolves^ 
Rattlesnakes and Musketoes." 

Indians were about in plenty, however, and it Avas necessary 
to be on the constant lookout for them. It was for protection 
against these foes that the fort was built on Fort Hill in l632 
and another in East Boston by Samuel Maverick. 

The following quotation from the early records shows some 
of the problems which confronted the settlers: "At the Gen- 
eral Court at Boston in September, l632, it was ordered that 
Richard Hopkins should be severely whipt and branded with 
a red hot Iron on one of his Cheeks, for selling Guns, Powder, 
and Shot to the Indians. At the same Time the Question was 
considered, whether Persons offending in this way ought not 
to be put to death But the Subject was referred to the next 
Court." 

Our Puritan forefathers seldom did things by halves, as the 
foregoing extract shows. Heretics and "witches" had a hard 
row to hoe, and punishments were swift and sure. It is related 
that in l640 one Edward Palmer, for asking an excessive price 
for a pair of stocks which he had hired to frame, had the pri- 
vilege of sitting an hour in them himself. 

The settlement was hardly formed before a schoolmaster 
had been appointed in the person of one Philemon Pormont, 
the first of that long line of schoolmasters that has kept up 
the supremacy of letters through all the stress of the building 
of a nation. Harvard College w^as founded in 1 636, and it has 
remained from the day of its founding not only the first, but 
the foremost university in America. 

These were the days of the greatest usefulness of the far- 
famed baked beans. To the settler, tramping of a Sunday to 
his three-service all-day worship, gun on shoulder and eye for 
the lurking savage, it was satisfying to the inner man to find 
on returning to his rude house that the smoking bean-pot, 
snugly ensconced in the embers, had been cooking in his ab- 



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sence, and was ready to supply his system with that toothsome 
trinity of proteids^ carbohydrates and fatS;, the Boston Baked 
Bean. 

Of medicine in these days there is Httle to note. As Dr. 
Hohnes says: "Our forefathers appear to have given more 
thought^ a great deal^ to the salvation of their souls^ than to 
the care of their bodies. Disease itself^ the offspring of sin and 
penalty of a poisoned nature^, was for them a theological entity 
rather than a disturbed physiological process. . . . Very little 
is recorded of the practitioners of medicine compared with the 
abundant memoirs of the preachers." There were physicians^ 
to be sure^ many of them well trained. John Winthrop^ Jr., 
son of the first governor^ for some years an inhabitant of 
Massachusetts and afterwards Governor of Connecticut^ was a 
noted physician. Charles Chauncy and Leonard Hoar, presi- 
dents of Harvard College, were regular graduates of medicine 
at Cambridge, England. 

There were women physicians as early as iGsG, when Anne 
Hutchinson came to Boston to practise her profession. She is 
spoken of as a person '^^Very helpful! in the times of childbirth, 
and otlier occasions of bodily infirmities, and well furnished 
with means for those purposes." 

Margaret Jones of Charlestown, tlie first person to be hanged 
in New England for witchcraft (l64<8), was a practising physi- 
cian. Her medicines were said to have "extraordinary violent 
effects." 

The most important event in the medical history of pro- 
vincial times was the introduction of inoculation for small])ox 
in 17!2L At this time there was just one regularly graduated 
physician in Boston, William Douglass. He opposed inocula- 
tion witli a ready ])en, and was su})ported by the press. The 
ministers of this time were quite the peers of the doctors in 
medical knowledge, and it is not strange that the credit for 
the introduction of variolous inoculation should be given to 
the Rev. Cotton Mather, who had read in the Philosophical 
Transactions of the Royal Society of London that this method 
had been used in Turkey as a preventive against smalljwx. 



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Dr. Zabcliel Boylston supported Dr. Mather, practised in- 
oculation, and even inoculated his own son amid the most 
violent opposition and abuse, his life at one time being in 
danger. 

To Dr. Benjamin VVaterhouse is due the credit for the in- 
troduction of vaccination for smallpox in the United States. 
Dr. Waterhouse read Jenner's book in 1799 ^md a little later 
Pearson's book upon Cow or Kinepox, and in March, 1799j» 
began the publication of articles on vaccination. He received 
vaccine from England and first of all vaccinated his own son. 
He furnished infected threads to President Jefferson at Monti- 
cello, with which the President vaccinated all his immediate 
family and probably himself. 

The American Revolution began in Boston. Just when the 
agitation started which led up to 
the war is a matter on which there 
is a difference of opinion. 

The citizens of Boston had an 
opportunity to test their indepen- 
dence and their resources as far 
back as 1746, when Louis XV sent 
a powerful fleet of ships under 
Admiral D'Anville to wipe the town 
off the face of the map because of 
the taking of Louisburg by the 
Provincials the previous year. The 
citizens sank stone boats in the boston stone 

harbor, and organized the '^ train bands of the province" to 
the number of 6400 men. Their deliverance came through a 
violent storm wdiich wrecked the French fleet off Grand Manan 
Island, in the Bay of Fundy. 

The colonists of New England had learned that they could 
storm and take one of the strongest fortresses in America 
without help from outside, and furthermore they had defied 
the anger of the most powerful prince in Europe and had come 
off without harm, as they thought by the providence of God. 

Soon after this the impressment of American seamen in the 




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British navy aroused the ire of the inhabitants. It seemed as 
if the home government in England did everything it could to 
antagonize the colonists. When James Otis delivered his famous 
speech against the ^"^ Writs of Assistance" in I76l he was not 
successful^ to be sure, but he aroused the people and taught 
them to maintain their rights. "Sam" Adams was the quiet, 
honored leader behind the scenes who had the confidence of 
his fellow-townsmen, both rich and poor. He called town meet- 
ings upon occasions of need, and formal and dignified resolu- 
tions were passed against the British acts of repression. 

If emphasis were needed to the resolutions a mob appeared 
in the streets and did Adams's bidding. The Stamp Act, passed 
by the British Parliament in 1765 to raise revenues in the 
American colonies by the sale of stamps and stamped paper for 
commercial purposes, and the tax on tea aroused great hostility 
to the government. 

In State Street was shed the first blood of the Revolution, 
in 1770, when the soldiers fired on one of the mobs and killed 
Crispus Attucks, a negro, and two others. This was the so- 
called "Boston Massacre." 

The Boston Tea Party, as it was styled, when masked men 
disguised as Indians tossed overboard a cargo of freshly arrived 
tea from a vessel lying at Griffin's Wharf, occurred in 1773, and 
was the cause of the Boston Port Bill, which closed the port 
to trade. 

These were stirring times in Boston. Dr. Joseph Warren 
left his practice to further the cause of freedom. Three months 
before his death at Bunker Hill he delivered an oration in the 
Old South Church on the Boston Massacre, the churcli being 
so carefully guarded by the soldiers it was necessary to in- 
troduce him into the building through a window behind the 
pulpit. 

It was only by chance that the Americans learned of the 
British plans to destroy the stores and ammunition collected 
at Concord. The secret had been so well kept that it is said 
General Gage's second in command did not know until the next 
morning the troops had marched to Lexington. A groom of a 



GUIDE TO BOSTON 7 

British grenadier staying at the Province House let fall the 
remark to a hostler, John Ballard by name, that "there would 
be hell to pay to-morrow." This was April 18, 1775. Ballard 
was a liberty boy, and feigning some forgotten errand, left the 
stable in haste and carried the news to Paul Revere, who al- 
ready had made his plans as to the signal lanterns to be 
placed in Christ Church steeple. 

On June 17, 1775, was fought the battle of Bunker Hill. 
It is a singular coincidence that this should be St. Botolph's 
Day, the East Anglian saint for whom old Boston in England 
was named. On the same day befell the taking of Louisburg 
by the Massachusetts and Connecticut provincials in 1745. 

The names of Warren, Putnam, Prescott, Pomeroy and Stark 
are writ large on the rolls of the heroes of the Revolution. 

That the raw, undisciplined Americans, fighting in their 
shirt-sleeves in the little redoubt only eight rods square, could 
inflict a loss in killed and wounded of one quarter of General 
Gage's force was glory enough, and was fraught with results 
big for the cause of freedom, notwithstanding that the British 
came off victors. 

The loss of General Joseph Warren, the President of the 
Provincial Congress, was equal to that of five hundred men in 
the estimation of General Howe, who knew him well. To the 
remonstrance of his friend, Elbridge Gerry, who begged him 
not to go to Bunker Hill, W^arren replied, Dnlce et decorum est 
pro patria mori. Deeply hurt by the reflections cast upon the 
courage of his countrymen he is said to have exclaimed, "I 
hope I shall die up to my knees in blood! " He was shot through 
the head by a musket-ball, and his body lay on the field until 
the next day, when it was recognized by Dr. Jeffries, and was 
buried on the spot where he fell. His remains were removed 
years later to the family vault in Forest Hills Cemetery. 

During the siege of Boston in 1775 and 1776 by the Re- 
volutionary Army, General Knox succeeded in bringing more 
than fifty cannons, mortars and howitzers from Ticonderoga, 
Cro^vn Point and other distant places to the lines before Bos- 
ton, dragging them on sledges over the snow. One of the can- 



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non balls, perhaps from these very cannons, found lodgement 
in the wall of the Brattle Square Church, and is now to be seen 
at the rooms of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 

The British used Faneuil Hall for a theatre, the Old South 
Church for a riding-academy for the dragoons, the Old North 
Church for fuel, and made themselves as obnoxious as they 
could. 

On the morning of March 17^, 1776, they awoke to find that 
General Washington had fortified Dorchester Heights, so that 
he could pitch cannon-balls into the fleet in the harbor and 
into the town. Accordingly they went aboard their ships and 
evacuated the town, and Washington came triumphantly in 
over the Neck from Roxbury. 

Boston originally had jurisdiction over Charlestown, East 
Boston, Chelsea, Revere, Brookline, Quincy, Braintree and 
Randolph, so that even in colonial days there was a Greater 
Boston. It was not until 1739 that Boston was limited to the 
peninsula proper and certain of the islands of the harbor. At 
present its bounds embrace 27,251 acres of original land, filled 
marshes and acquired territory, and include besides "Boston 
Proper," starting at the east and swinging around to the south, 
west and north. East Boston, South PLnd, South Boston, Dor- 
chester, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, West Roxburj^, Brighton, 
Back Ba}^, West P^nd, North End and Charlestown. Brookline, 
tlie wealthiest town in the country, forms a wedge between 
Brighton on the north, and Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury 
on the south, and so far has resisted all efforts to induce it to 
join the municipality, 

Boston had a town government, with a board of selectmen, 
until it was incorporated as a city, February 23, 1822. It is in- 
teresting to note that in 1734-, one hundred years after its 
settlement, Boston had a population of fifteen thousand, which 
is the ))resent j)()])ulation of Boston in P'ingland. 

In 1789 the town was made u{) almost entirely of wooden 
buildings, of which there were some twenty-three hundred, 
and the population lunnbered a little over eighteen thousand 
souls. 



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Greater Boston is supposed to include the ^^ Boston Basin," 
a territory of some fifteen miles in width, lying between the 
bay on the east, the range of Blue Hills on the south, and 
the ridge of the Wellesley Hills and Arlington Heights on 
the w est, around towards Cape Ann on the north. This region 
now embraces thirty-seven cities and towns, with a population 
in 1905 of 1,262,841. 

Boston is divided up according to long-established custom 
into the following districts: Central or Business District; East 
Boston, — two islands. Noddle's and Breed's; South Boston, 
projecting into the harbor; Dorchester District on the south- 
east ; Roxbury District on the south ; Jamaica Plain and West 
Roxbury on the southwest; the Back Bay and the Brighton 
District on the northwest; the West End and the North End 
and the Charlestow n District on the north. The present popu- 
lation is a little under 600,000. 

Business has now spread from the Central District to the 
North End, West End and South End, and also into the Back 
Bay. The streets of the city are notoriously crooked excej^t in 
the Back Bay and in South Boston. According to an old song 
they were laid out by the cattle when we lived under the 
King. Many of them were at first lanes and paths; all of them 
have names and not numbers, wdth the single exception of the 
streets in South Boston. 

The town of I6.SO was laid out along the water-front, and 
most of the principal houses were situated in the neighbor- 
hood of what are now Dock Square and State, W^ashington and 
Hanover streets. In later years the better residential section 
spread to the slopes of Beacon, Copp's and Fort hills, and up 
Washington and Tremont streets to the South End, finally 
forsaking this region for the Back Bay. 

The streets were lighted by lamps until 18.34, when gas 
was introduced from the works errected at Copp's Hill in 1828. 

The early springs in time gave place to wells, and these to 
running water brought from Jamaica Pond in wooden logs by 
a company incorporated in 1795. Cochituate w^ater was intro- 
duced in 1848, and there was a celebration to mark the event 



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at the time at the Frog Pond on the Common^ for which James 
Russell Lowell wrote his ode on water. 

Water for the city now comes from Lake Cochituate^ the 
Sudbury River and the great Wachusett Reservoir of the Metro- 
politan Water Works at Clinton^ Mass. The introduction of 
water was brought about largely by the occurrence of disas- 
trous fires. There were serious conflagrations in l676, l679, 
1711 and 1760. The most disastrous of all was the great fire 
of November 9j, 1872^ which destroyed property to the amount 
of 160,000,000. 

Boston claims as her son Benjamin Franklin, ]:)rinter, writer, 
inventor, shrewd statesman, diplomat. Franklin left in his will 
a sum of money for the benefit of the artisans and working- 
men of his native city. The trustees of this fund, which has now 
accumulated sufficiently in amount, are ])lanning at the pre- 
sent time for the erection of the Franklin Union to carry 
out his wishes and to honor his memory. Daniel Webster, the 
great orator, statesman and lawyer, had his home at Marshfield, 
not many miles from our city. 

Boston gave to the world the electric telegraph and the tele- 
phone. S. F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, was born 
in Charlestown in I791jj and the first experimental line was 
stretched from Milk Street to School Street in 18.S9. 

Alexander Graham Bell came to Boston from Scotland in 
1872, and lectured at Boston University. At the laboratories of 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard LTni- 
versity he worked out what is probably the greatest time-saving 
invention of the age, the speaking-telephone. Boston is now 
one of the greatest telephone cities of the country, the heart 
of the telephone industry, from which have spread throughout 
the world this wonderful means of bringing people at a distance 
into instant communication. The story is told of a prominent, 

somewhat absent-minded clergyman, the Rev. , who had 

just had a telephone installed in his house. He became so fas- 
cinated with it during the week that on the next Sunday morn- 
ing he startled his congregation by announcing: "Give us hymn 
double one-o-six — sing three." In Quincy was built the first 



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railway in America^ a short line stretching from the granite 
quarries to the sea. 

The Boston region has been foremost in popular education 
from Puritanical times. As counting in the educational equip- 
ment, there are within the scope of the metropolitan region 
some two and a half million books which may be consulted by 
the public. Many notable figures in the realm of pure literature 
adorn the pages of her history. Parkman, Prescott and Motley 
wrote their histories here. 

Here lived Ralph Waldo Emerson, preacher, poet, philoso- 
pher, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, that matchless weaver of ro- 
mances. Boston and Cambridge were the homes of the poets 
Longfellow, Lowell and Holmes, and Whittier lived not far away. 

Nathaniel Bowditch made his translation of Laplace's ^^Me- 
canique Celeste" in Salem, and Asa Gray, the botanist, and 
Louis Agassiz, the naturalist, lived and worked in Cambridge. 

The fishing industry, always one of Boston's chief occupa- 
tions, still maintains its supremacy. Boston is the second port in 
point of size in the United States. It is the greatest wool mar- 
ket and the greatest boot and shoe market in the world. In 
public spirit our city has always been preeminent. Bostonians 
are the first to respond with assistance in times of great dis- 
asters. The most recent instance is the terrible misfortune which 
has come upon San Francisco. The news was barely reported 
before measures were taken to send relief As a musical cen- 
tre Boston has been preeminent, and the fame of the Boston 
Symphony Orchestra has spread throughout the world. 

Boston has been defined facetiously as ^'^not a locality, but 
a state of mind," and it is the pride of Boston and of Massa- 
chusetts that this state of mind is the heritage from Winthrop 
and his followers, who brought with them to New England 
the best traditions of Old England. 



HOW TO FIND THE WAY ABOUT THE CITY 

CONSULT map facing page 2, and note the points of 
the compass, the shape of the city and that Boston is 
a peninsula separated from the mainland (Cambridge 
and Charlestown) on the west and north by the Charles River, 
from Chelsea and the island of East Boston on the northeast 
by Boston Harbor, and from South Boston and Dorchester on 
the southeast by the South Bay. 

Although Boston streets are narrow and crooked, the dis- 
tances are not great. A circle with a mile radius from City 
Hall in School Street includes all of Boston proper and small 
portions of Charlestown, East Boston, South Boston and the 
South End, and a large section of the Back Bay. 

The Boston Elevated Railway has charge of nearly all the 
street railways of the city, both surftxce and Subway lines as well 
as the Elevated. The excellent service furnished has been most 
favorably commented on by strangers within our gates. One 
can make long trips from suburb to suburb without a change, 
and by means of the numerous lines of electric and steam 
cars the beautiful environs of the city are kept in close touch 
with the centres of traffic. There are well managed cab-stands 
at the railway stations, and there are in the city large motor 
busses and electric cars for '^^seeinn; Boston." 

It is well to get in mind three chief centres of traffic before 
describing the more important streets. 

I. The Junction of Tremont and Park Streets. Here is the 
end of the loop in the Subway for surface cars to the west: 
cars may be taken for Brighton, Brookline, Cambridge, New- 
ton, Waltham and other places. This is also a shopping centre, 
and Tremont Street, being free from surface tracks at this 
I)oint, makes a delightful, unobstructed promenade. Winter 
Street, Temple Place and West Street, extending through to 
Washington Street, are close at hand. The theatres and several 
hotels are near the Boylston Street station of the Subway, the 
first station south of Park Street. 



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II. ScoLLAY Square, formed by tlie junction of Court, Tre- 
mont, Brattle and Hanover streets, Peniberton Square and 
Cornhill. Here are the Subway stations for the main line of 
the Subway and the East Boston Tunnel. Here the surface 
cars from the north of Boston, from Charlestown, Lynn, Med- 
ford, Saugus, Chelsea and other suburbs, pass around a loop 
before returning. Scollay Square is close at hand to several 
prominent hotels and to the City Hall and State Street, not 
to mention the Court House in Pemberton Square. 

III. Copley Square, the centre of the Back Bay district at 
the junction of Boylston and Dartmouth streets and Hunting- 
ton Avenue. Here surface cars from all three streets pass at 
frequent intervals to and from the Public Garden entrance of 
the Subway. The Public Library and Art Museum, Trinity, the 
Second, and the New Old South churches are in the square, 
also the Back Bay branch of the Post Office. Within a stone's 
throw are the Back Bay Station of the New York, New Haven 
& Hartford Railroad and the Trinity Place and Huntington 
Avenue stations of the New York Central & Hudson River Rail- 
way. One block away, beyond the Public Library, is the Harvard 
Medical School. Boylston Street, a continuation of Essex Street, 
which starts at the South Station, runs through the square 
nearly east and west. Just below the square are the Walker 
and Rogers buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology, and the Young Men's Christian Association building. 

There are two chief railway stations in Boston, the North 
Station and the South Station, 
the Back Baij, Huntington Ave- 
nue, and Triniti/ Place .stations- 
being onlyadjunctsofthe South 
Station. The North Station 
is on Causeway Street, at the 
foot of Friend Street, on the 
waterside, at the mouth of the 
Charles River. It is the termi- 
nus of the many divisions of l. h. shamd, Photo. 
the Boston & Maine Railroad. north station 




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There is a station of the Elevated Railway across Causeway 
Street, connected by a covered way with the North Station. 








N. L. Stebbins, Photo. 

SOUTH STATION 

Elevated trains may be taken here for Charlestown, Roxbury 
(Dudley Street) or Atlantic Avenue circuit, including the South 
Station. The Relief Station oj the Boston City Hospital is two blocks 
south at Haymarket Square. Causeway Street leads along the 
water-front to the east, past the Boston ends of the two 
bridges to Charlestown, soon becoming Commercial Street, 
which in turn merges into Atlantic Avenue, the long water- 
side street of the city. 

Passing through Atlantic Avenue to the south one sees all 
the principal wharves of the city, and finally reaches the 
South Station in Dewey Square. Both Elevated and surface 
cars run on Atlantic Avenue. Near the South Station are 
three bridges to South Boston across Fort Point Channel which 
leads to the South Bay. The South Station, the largest pas- 
senger station in the world, is the terminus of the New York, 
New Haven & Hartford and the New York Central & Hudson 
River railroads. 

Summer Street is one of the chief retail business streets, 
extending from the South Station to Washington Street at a 
point opposite Winter Street. There are surface cars on Sum- 
mer Street and Washington Street. 



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Washington Street is the long street of the city;, reaching 
from the Charlestown Bridge to Roxbury and beyond. The 
Subway is in the northerly part of it, and the Elevated Rail- 
way in the southerly part. Surface cars pass over it in both di- 
rections except in its narrowest portion. Newspaper Row, be- 
tween Adams Square and Milk Street, where they go south 
only. 

Tremont Street is another long street of the city. It ex- 
tends from Scollay Square, in the heart of the city, by Rox- 
bury Crossing and nearly to Brookline, being approximately 
parallel to Washington Street for a large part of its course. 
There are surface cars on it except over the Subway, i. e., 
from Scollay Square to Boylston Street. 

Beacon Street begins at Tremont opposite School Street, 
and runs over Beacon Hill, past the State House, along the mar- 
gin of the Charles River, and out to Chestnut Hill Reservoir. 

Charles Street passes along the northerly and westerly 
water-front of the city, and connects the North and West Ends 
with the Back Bay and South End. There are no wharves of 
importance on this side of the city. It extends from the Craigie 
(Cambridge) Bridge, past the grounds of the Massachusetts Gen- 
eral Hospital and the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear In- 
firmary, by the new Cambridge Bridge, and between the Pub- 
lic Garden and Common to Park Square. The yellow Beit-Line 
cars run on this street. 

The Back Bay is laid out in the form of a rectangle, and 
the short cross streets between Boylston and Beacon streets 
are named alphabetically, beginning with Arlington Street at 
the Public Garden. 

Huntington Avenue begins at Copley Square, and extends 
to the Brookline line. The Mechanics Building is on the lower 
part of the street, and Symphony and Horticidtural halls are 
at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue. Near this corner are 
also the Children s Hospital and Chickering and Jordan halls, 
the latter being in the Conservatory of Music building, all on 
Huntington Avenue. The Tuffs College Medical School build- 
ing is a little farther out on the left-hand side. The street 



16 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

crosses Longwood Avenue when nearing Brookline^ and sev- 
eral hundred yards away are the new buildings of the Har- 
vard Medical School. 

Massachusetts Avenue is a cross-town street, the Boston part 
beginning at the Harvard Bridge, in the Back Bay. It crosses 
all the long streets of the Back Bay, Beacon Street first, then 
Marlborough, Commonwealth Avenue, Newbury and Boylston 
streets. From the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Boyl- 
ston street it is a short distance to the west to the Fenway and 
the Boston Medical Library, next the building of the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society which stands on the corner of 
Boylston Street and the Fenway. Massachusetts Avenue next 
crosses Huntington Avenue, and going into the South End cuts 
across Columbus Avenue, Tremont Street, Shawmut Avenue 
and Washington Street, where it comes to the Northampton 
Street station of the Elevated Railway. Harrison Avenue is 
the next street, and Albany beyond. There are trolley cars on 
the avenue except between Columbus Avenue and Albany 
Street. 

The South Department (^infectious- hospital) of the City Hospi- 
tal is on Massachusetts Avenue, between Harrison Avenue and 
Albany Street, and the Boston Citij Hospital is only a block 
away, on Harrison Avenue. 

To the visitor viewing Boston from an elevation the chief 
lofty landmarks which meet his eye are the gilded dome of 
the State House on the summit of Beacon Hill, the many sky- 
scraping office buildings of the Business District, the Cathedral 
of the Holy Cross on Washington Street in the South End, 
the Carney Hospital, and the marble monument on old Dor- 
chester Heights in South Boston; in the distance to the south, 
Blue Hill with the Observatory crowning its summit, and 
nearer at hand the white minaret-like old stand-pipe on Fort 
Hill in Roxbury. Parker and Corey hills are to the west of 
the city, and the large dome of the new Christian Science 
Temple, on Falmouth Street near the corner of Massachusetts 
and Huntington avenues, is much in evidence. Other land- 
marks are the spires of Trinity and the New Old South churches 



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on Copley Square in the Back Bay; Memorial Hall tower at 
Harvard in Cambridge^ to the west; and to the north^ Bunker 
Hill Monument in Charlestown^ and the Tufts College build- 
ings on Colleije Hill in Somerville. 

The Suhwaif was first opened for use in 1897;, and the Elevated 
Raibvaij in 1900; together they provide the road-bed for the 
Elevated trains. Starting at the terminal in Sullivan Square, 
Charlestown, where surface cars gather from all points north, 
the Elevated is a high trestle until it reaches the heart of 
Charlestown. It crosses the Charlestown Bridge as an elevated 
structure, and on reaching Causeway Street makes a sharp turn 
to the west to reach the North Station; leaving the North Sta- 
tion, the tracks enter the Subway by a steep decline to Hay- 
market Square, and continue under the surface, through Wash- 
ington and Hanover streets, to Scollay Square, together with the 
tracks for the surface cars from the north, which pass around a 
loop here. Continuing under Tremont Street, the Subway tracks 
come to the surface at Pleasant Street, at the junction of Tre- 
mont Street and Shawmut Avenue. A branch of the Subway 
for surface cars forms a loop at Park Street, and comes to the 
surface on the Public Garden at the edge of Boylston Street. 
The elevated tracks begin at Pleasant Street, gradually rise and 
cross the tracks of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- 
road and the New York Central & Hudson River Railway, turn 
to the east along Castle Street, and then south over Washington 
Street to the present terminal at Dudley Street in Roxbury, 
where surface cars may be taken for the suburbs to the south. 

The Atlantic Avenue loop of the Elevated begins at the 
Boston terminus of the Charlestown Bridge and extends over 
Commercial Street and Atlantic Avenue to the South Station, 
and thence by several twists and turns to the junction with 
the main line at Washington and Castle streets. 



CENTRAL OR BUSINESS DISTRICT 



MOST of the older historic landmarks are to be found 
in the Business District and North End, or the part 
of the peninsula to which Colonial, Provincial and 
Revolutionary Boston was confined. 

Fori Hill Square is a few steps from the Rowe's Wharf sta- 
tion of the Boston Elevated Railway, passing through High 
Street. It is the site of Fort Hill, one of the original hills of old 
Boston, levelled in 1867-72. Close at hand, at the foot of 
Pearl Street, near what is now the western side of Atlantic 

Avenue, — the waterside 
street, — was Griffin's 

Wharf, scene of the Boston 
Tea Party. A tablet, with a 
model of a tea ship and an 
inscription, marks the spot. 
Going up Pearl Street, 
away from the harbor, we 
enter Milk Street just be- 
low Post Office Square. 
The Post Office marks the 
easterly limit of the great 
fire of 1872, which burned 
over an area of sixty acres, 
and destroyed property to 
the amount of sixty mil- 
lion dollars. The crumbled 
stone on the Milk Street 
side of the building and a 
tablet in the wall com- 
memorate the disaster. 
Milk and Pearl streets were the site of many fine residences 
in the latter part of the eighteenth and early part of the nine- 
teenth centuries. Some of the first families of the town occupied 
spacious mansions, surrounded by am[)le lawns and gardens, in 
this vicinity. 




THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH 




CENTRAL DISTRICT ^ 




AND WEST ENDS 



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Near the head of Milk Street, No. I9, and nearly opposite 
the Old South Church, is the birthplace of Beiijandn Frauklin. 
The Old South Meeting-House, corner of Milk and Washing- 
ton streets, was built in 1 729. A previous church on this site 
was built in l670. On Milk Street, just behind the church, 
is the site of Governor Winthrop's second mansion, in which 
he died. 

Otis, Warren and Hancock addressed the citizens from the 
pulpit of the Old South; Whitefield preached here; town 
meetings Mere held in the Meeting-House in 1773, which led 
up to the Boston Tea Party. Dr. Joseph Warren delivered a 
series of orations on the Boston Massacre here three months 
before he was killed at Bunker Hill. The church was used as 
a riding-school by the British dragoons in 1775, during the 
siege of Boston. The building 
is now preserved by an organi- 
zation of twenty-five Boston 
women, as a loan museum of 
revolutionary and other re- 
lics. The Old South Lectures 
to young peoj)le on patriotic C^ 
subjects are held here every '^ 
year. Open to the public, week 
daiJS.O a.m. to 6 p.m. Fee, twentii- 

y ' ^ ' '' THE OLD CORNER BOOK STORE 

Jive cents. 

Spring Lane, the next street to Milk Street on the right- 
hand side, going north on Washington Street, is supposed to be 
the site of the earliest spring mentioned by the first settlers. 
The Old Corner Book Store on W^ashingon Street, corner of 
School Street and nearly opposite Spring Lane, is a weathered 
relic of the past, soon to give w^ay to a modern office building. 
It was built in 1712, and has been a bookstore ever since 1828. 
Ticknor and Fields, and their successors, occupied the store 
for a series of years, and many noted authors were wont to 
gather here. 

On the opposite side of Washington Street, from the Old 
South Church, and one hundred yards or so south, is a passage- 




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way leading into Province Court. In the court may be seen a 
portion of the wall of the old Province House (1667)^ used as 
a residence for the governors in colonial times. 

Going up School Street we come to the Niles Building on 
the right-hand side of the street, not far from the Old Corner 
Book Store. This was the site from 1785 to 1815 of the dwell- 
ing of Dr. John Warren, brother of Dr. Joseph Warren and 
great-grandfather of the present Dr. John Collins Warren. He 
was the first Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the Harvard 
Medical School. Note the portion of the old fireplace and the 
tablet set in the wall of the entrance hall. 

In front of the City Hall (1862), on School Street, are the 
statues of Benjamin Franklin, by Richard Greenough, and that 
of the elder Josiah Quincy, by Thomas Ball. The first })ublic 
Latin schoolhouse in the town, the predecessor of the present 
Latin School on Warren Avenue, was erected on the spot be- 
tween the City Hall and King's Chapel in l635, whence the 
name of the street. See the tablet on the stone post in the 
fence in front of City Hall. 

Passing through City 
Hall Avenue we come to 
the rear of the Old Court 
House, built in 1836 from 
the designs of Solomon 
Willard, the architect of 
Bunker Hill Monument. 
It is associated with the 
fugitive-slave riots. The 
colonial prison was on 
this site. 

Returning to School 
Street, and passing to Tre- 
mont, we come to King's 
Chapel. Built in 1754, it is 
the second King's Chapel 
on the site, and tlie first 
Episcopal Church in Bos- 




K1N(. S ( IIAI'KL 



guidp: to boston 



21 




ton. It was built of Quincy granite from designs of Peter 
Harrison^ an Englishman, and has been little altered. Note 
the communion table of I688 and the tablets. It is now occu- 
pied by a Unitarian society. The 
sexton will show the church to 
members of the Association be- 
fween the hours of 9.30 a.m. and 
Jf. p.m., dailij. 

The King's Chapel Burying- 
Ground is nearly as old as Boston. 
The earliest interment of which the winthrop tomb 

there is a record is that of Governor Winthrop in I649. John 
Cotton (1652), pastor of the First Church; Rev. Thomas 
Thacher (l678), first pastor of the Old South Church; Gover- 
nor John Leverett (I8O9), and Judge Oliver Wendell, grand- 
father of Oliver W^endell Holmes, were buried here. 

Across School Street from King's Chapel is the Parker House, 
one of the chief hotels of Boston. A part of the hotel covers the 
site of Edward Everett Hale's birthplace. Across Tremont 
Street is the Tremont Office Building, occupying the site of the 
Tremont House, a famous inn for sixty 
years previous to 1 889. 

Tremont Temple, next to the Parker 
House, was founded as a Free Ba])tist 
Church in 1839- The present building 
is the fourth temple on this site. 

The Granary Blrying-Ground is 
on the west side of Tremont Street, 
between Beacon and Park streets. 
Here lie buried John Hancock, Sam- 
uel Adams, James Otis, Robert Treat 
Paine, Peter Faneuil, Paul Revere, 
Josiah Franklin and wife (parents of 
Benjamin Franklin), John Phillips, first 
mayor of Boston, and father of Wen- 
dell Phillips; many governors, as 
Richard Bellingham and James Bow- 




JOHN HANCOCK 
MONUMENT 




FRANKLIN MONUMENT 



22 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

doin, and the victims of the Boston 
Massacre of 1770. 

Park Street Church (1808) (Con- 
gregational Trinitarian) adjoins the 
Granary Burying-G round at the cor- 
ner of Tremont and Park streets, — 
\ "Brimstone Corner/' so called by 
the unrighteous. It is the best ex- 
ample remaining in the city of the 
early nineteenth century ecclesiasti- 
cal architecture. It stands on the site 
of the town granary, from which the 
town agents sold grain to the poor. 
Here William Lloyd Garrison' gave 
his first public address against slav- 
ery, and Charles Sumner delivered 
his great oration on '^The War System of Nations." In this 
church "America" was first sung on July 4, 1832. 

Opposite the entrance 
to the Granary Burying- 
Ground, on the corner of 
Bromfield Street, is the 
Paddock Office Building, 
on the site of the old Pad- 
dock mansion ; and look- 
ing into Hamilton Place, 
nearly opposite the en- 
trance to Park Street 
Church, we see the north- 
erly front of the old Music 
Hall, built by the Har- 
vard Musical Association 
in 1852, and now a vaude- 
ville theatre. Theodore 
Parker preached here, and 
this was the home of the 
Boston Sym])hony Orches- 




PAHK STREET CHURCH 



GUIDE TO BOSTON 23 

tra until the new Syni})hony Hall, at the corner of Massachu- 
setts and Huntington avenues, was built in I9OO. 

No. ^ Park Street was the house of Dr. John C. Warren. 
Here Dr. J, Mason Warren was born and died, and the pre- 
sent Dr. J. Collins Warren began })ractice. It was occupied for 
a short time by the historian, John Lothrop Motley. 

Boston Common was set apart as a place for a training field and 
for feeding the cattle in 1634, four years after the settlement 
of the town. It extended originally from the junction of Beacon 
and Tremont streets to the waters of the Charles River, where 
Charles Street is now. At present it comprises about forty-nine 
acres, and is bounded by Beacon, Park, Tremont, Boylston and 
Charles streets, being separated from the Public Garden by the 
last-named street. It has been preserved intact by orders of 
the town, and by a clause in the City Charter, forbidding its sale 
or lease, or the laying out within its precincts of any highway 
or railway. Handsome trees and broad walks have been per- 
manent features of the Common for many years. It is still used 
as a training field by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
Company (1637), who annually go through their manoeuvres on 
the Parade Ground on the Charles Street side, and by the 
Boston School Regiment, who have their May trainings upon 
it. It was from the Parade Ground that -the British took boats 
for Lexington and Concord in April, 1775, and later assembled 
forces for Bunker Hill. Cows were pastured on the Common as 
late as 1830. The broad walk along Tremont Street is called 
Lafayette Mall. When the Subway was started in 1895, the 
mall was bordered by several rows of ancient elms which 
were in a decadent condition. These were removed b}^ the 
building of the Subway. Note the granite buildings at the 
entrances and exits of the Subway. Also on the opposite side 
of Tremont Street, between Winter Street and Temple 
Place, St. Paul's Church, the fourth Episcopal church in Bos- 
ton, dating from 1820. Daniel Webster attended this church, 
and the remains of Prescott, the historian, are buried in the 
crypt. 

About halfway between West and Mason streets, in the 



24 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

green facing Lafayette Mall^ is the Crispus Attucks Monument, 
by Robert Kraus^ erected by the State in 1888 to commemo- 
rate the Boston Massacre of 1770. 

In Mason Street^ entered just beyond the Crispus Attucks 
Monument;, is the second home in Boston of the Harvard Medi- 
cal School. The building on the easterly side of the street, next 
to the entrance of the Boston Theatre, and occupied in the 
lower story by the horseless fire engine, and also as the fire 
chief's house, was erected in 1815 for the Medical School, and 
was occupied by the school until 1847. Upstairs are now the 
rooms of the Boston School Committee. The Boston Theatre, 
which was first opened to the public in 1854, was in its day 
the finest and largest theatre in the country, and even now can 
hold its own in point of size and acoustic properties. The stage 
is 100 X 96 feet, and the auditorium seats 3,037 people. "The 
Rivals" was the opening play, given by an excellent cast. Among 
the ftimous men and women seen on this stage, John Gilbert, 
Edwin Forrest, Edwin Booth, Charlotte Cushman, Clara Louise 
Kellogg, Ole Bull, Clara Morris, Jose})h Jefferson, Adelaide 
Phillips and Carlotta Patti are the most noted. 

On one corner of Boylston and Tremont streets is the Ma- 
sonic Temple (1898), housing thirteen different lodges, and on 
the opposite corner the Touraiuc, one of Boston's leading 
hotels, on the site of the mansion house of President John 
Quincy Adams. Motor busses for "seeing Boston" are to be 
found on Tremont Street, near this hotel. 

On the corner of Washington and Boylston streets the Con- 
tinental Clothing House is on the site of the Boylston Mar- 
ket, one of the two original markets of the old town; and o{)po- 
site it, on the other side of Washington Street, in the wall of the 
building on the corner of Essex Street, is a stone tablet mark- 
ing the location of the Liberty Tree, planted in l646, and cut 
down by the Tories in 1775. When cut up it made fourteen 
cords of wood. A flagstaff was erected on the stump of the tree, 
and the ground around it was called "Liberty Hall" for many 
years. 

The old Central Burying-G round (1756) is on the Boylston 



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25 




Street side of the 

Common. Here are 

buried Gilbert Stuart, 

the portrait painter, 

and M. JuUen^ he of 

Juhen soup fame. 

Coming from France 

as a refugee from the 

French Revohition, 

he kept a famous re- 
staurant, called ''Ju- the frog pond 

lien's Restorator/'the first of the sort in the town. 

The Ai'mij and Navy Monument is on the hill nearly in the 

centre of the Common. It was erected by the city in 1877, 

^ " and is the work of Martin 
1^ Milmore. At the foot of 
m! this hill, to the east, stood 
the '^'^ Great Elm," which 
was thought to be older 
than the town. From its 
limbs witches and pirates 
were hung. It was blown 
down in a windstorm 
February 15, 1 876. A tree, 
grown from a shoot, and 
an iron tablet now mark 
the site. 

On the easterly side of 
Monument Hill is the 
Frog Pond, a shallow pool, 
the survivor of a marshy 
bog which formerly oc- 
cupied this ground. The 

children sail their boats here in the summer and skate in winter. 

^'^The Long Path," which runs from Joy Street to Boylston 

Street, is made immortal in Dr. Holmes's ^*^ Autocrat of the 

Breakfast-Table. ' ' 




THE LONG PATH 
BOSTON COMMON 



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One of the 




finest 

pieces of outdoor sculp- 
ture in the city is the 
Colonel Robert Gould 
Shaw Memorial (1897) 
on the Beacon St. Mall, 
facing the State House. 
The larfi-e bronze tablet 



in high relief, 



repre- 



Ihe 



reproduction aiahoi ix,td In tht iuilptor 
SHAW MONUMENT 



senting Colonel Shaw 
mounted at the head 
of his troops, is the 
work of Augustus St. 
Gaudens, and the ar- 
chitect of the elaborate stone setting is Charles F. McKim. 
There is an inscription by President p],liot, and also verses by 
Lowell and Emerson. On Beacon Street, opposite the Shaw 
Memorial, is a large freestone house. No. 2^, on the site of the 
John Hancock House. A bronze tablet set in the iron fence 
in front of the house commemorates the fact that here stood 
the residence of John Hancock, the first signer of the Declara- 
tion of American Independence, and first governor of Massa- 
chusetts under the State 
Constitution. 

The State House 
(1795), with its gilded 
dome, stands at the top 
of a broad sweeji of gran- 
ite steps on Beacon Hill. 
It occupies the cow pas- 
ture of the Hancock es- 
tate. The historic Buljinch 
Frout was designed by 
Charles Bulfinch, and Mas 
the Massachusetts State 
House until 1853, when 
an addition to the Mt. 




THE JOHN HANCOCK HOUSE 



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27 



Vernon Street side was built. The State House Annex, the por- 
tion of the building extending back to Derne Street, crossing 
Mt. Vernon Street by an arch, was built on the site of the old 




J^^^e^^**^' 



STATE HOUSE 



stone reservoir in 1889- The dome was first gilded in 1874, and 
of late years it has been illuminated at night by rows of electric 
lights. 

On the highest of the three original peaks of the hill rising 
to the rear, and north of the Bulfinch Front, the Beacon, from 
which the hill takes its name, was erected early in l600, to 
warn the country of danger. It consisted of an iron skillet, filled 
with combustibles, susj)ended from a mast. An Independence 
Monument, the first in America, designed by Bulfinch, was 
erected on the site of the Beacon in 1790, and in 18 11, when the 
peak was levelled , this monument was destroyed, only the tablets 
and the gilded wooden eagle which surmounted it being pre- 
served. The present monument, a reproduction of the Bulfinch 
one, was erected by the Bunker Hill Monument Association 
in 1898, as nearly as possible on the site of the original beacon. 



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In front of the State House are the statues of Horace Mann, 
by Emma Stebbins, on the side towards the Hancock House, 
and Daniel Webster_, by Hiram Powers, on the north side. Far- 
ther away, on the Beacon Street side, is the equestrian statue 
of Major-General Joseph Hooker, by D. C, French, the horse by 
E. C. Potter. The statue on the lawn near the monument is 
that of Major-General Charles Devens, by Olin L. Warner. 
The entrance hall in the Bulfinch Front is Doric Hall. Note 
the statues of Washington and Governor John A. Andrew, and 
the brass cannon captured in the War of 18l!2. 

The historical paintings in the Grand Staircase Hall are to 
be noted. In the marble Memorial Hall are the battle flags car- 
ried by the Massachusetts Volunteers in the Civil War, and 
mural paintings by H. O. Walker and Edward Simmons. 

In Represcntntive.s Hall see the historic codfish suspended 
opposite the speaker's desk. This is a reproduction of the 
wooden codfish, ''emblem of the staple of commodities of the 
Colony and the Province," which hung from the ceiling of 
Representatives' Hall in the Old State House on Washington 
Street. 

In the State Libyan/ in the State House Annex is the fa- 
mous Bradford Manuscript, the "History of Plimoth Planta- 
tion," the so-called ''Log of the 'Mayflower,'" by Governor 
William Bradford. This was found in the library of the Bishop of 
London's palace at Fulham, and was returned to the Com- 
monwealth in 1897, through the efforts of Senator Hoar of 
Massachusetts, and the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, ambassador at 
the Court of St. James. On the south side of the State House 
is Hancock Street, and at No. 20 was the home of Charles 
Sumner, the successor of Daniel Webster in the United States 
Senate. 

The Boslou Alhcnacuni (I84f)) is on Beacon Street, east side, 
just below Park Street. It is a library of over two hundred 
thousand volumes, including many rare books. It was formerly 
an art gallery as well, many of its valuable works of art now 
being at the Museum of Fine Arts on Co])ley Square. 

The Cniigrcgatioual House, the Unitarian Building and the 



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Ford Memorial (^Baptist) are close at hand on Beacon Street. 
In Somerset Street, No. 18, are the rooms of the New England 
Historic Genealogical Society (1844), where there is a valuable 
library of more than fifty thousand volumes and one hundred 
thousand pamphlets, comprising the best known collection of 
biographies, genealogical works and histories, and many rare 
manuscripts and relics. 

In Somerset Street are the headquarters of Boston Univer- 
sity (I869), for both sexes. The schools of liberal arts and all 
sciences are here, the school of medicine (homeopathic) being 
on East Concord Street at the South End. 

Somerset Street leads us from Beacon Street to Pemberton 
Square, by the first turn on the right, where the present County 
Court House (1 887) is situated. John Cotton's house (1 633) stood 
on the southeast side of the square near the entrance from Scol- 
lay Square. Next to it was Sir Harry Vane's house when he was 
governor of the colony in l636. The Cotton estate originally 
covered a large part of Pemberton Square, and at one time 
gave the name of Cotton to the hill. 

The Howard Athenaeum, an old playhouse, on Howard Street, 
off Court, was founded in 1 845, occupying on its present site a 
building once used for the tabernacle of a so-called prophet 
named Miller. The theatre was opened with ^'^The School for 
Scandal," the participants being noted actors and actresses. 
In 1846 the building was burned, and the present structure 
was built in the same year. Here the famous actor William 
Warren made his debut in "The Rivals." The famous Viennoise 
children were also first seen here. The house is most noted as 
being the scene of the first production of Italian opera ever 
given in Boston. The company was from Havana, and pre- 
sented " Ernani " in 1 847. The prestige of the theatre has gradu- 
ally declined, until now the house is known only as a variety 
theatre. 

Scollay Square — so called because the residence of William 
Scollay (1800) stood on the site of the old Boston Museum, 
No. 18 Tremont Street — is formed by the junction of Court 
and Tremont streets. Running out of the square, besides Court 



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and Tremont streets, are Cornhill^ Pemberton Square and Brat- 
tle Street, This is one of the great centres of traffic. Below the 
surface are the Tremont Street Subway and the terminus of the 
East Boston Tunnel, and in the future the Boston end of the Cam- 
bridge Subway will be here also. The electric cars from the re- 
gion north of Boston pass around a loop in the Subway at this 
point. 

Corn hill (18 16) was always a street of bookshops, and was 
originally called "Cheapside," after the London street. About 
midway on the north side is a narrow alley called Franklin 

Avenue, leading to Brattle 
Street. On the east corner of 
Franklin Avenue and Corn- 
hill was the printing office of 
James Franklin, where Ben- 
jamin Franklin learned the 
printer's trade as his bro- 
ther's apprentice. Here he 
composed and printed the 
ballads on "The Lighthouse 
Tragedy " and on " Teach " (or 
"Blackbeard"), the pirate, 
which he peddled about the 
streets. 

Opposite the Brattle Square end of Franklin Avenue was 
Murray's Barracks, wdiere m ere quartered from 1768 to 1770 the 
most obnoxious of the British regiments, — the Twenty-Ninth. 
Here the trouble began which ended in the Boston Massacre. 
The Qnincjj Home, a hotel on Brattle Street, is on the site of 
the first Quaker Meeting-House (l697), the first brick church 
in the town. On the opposite side of the street was the Brattle 
Square Church (1773) (Unitarian), razed in 1871, which bore 
in its front wall a cannon ball as a memento of the siege of 
Boston. This cannon ball is now preserved in the rooms of the 
Massachusetts Historical Society, corner of Boylston Street 
and the Fenway. A portion of the stonework of this church is 
incorporated in the tower of its successor, bought by the 




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FANEUIL HALL 



First Baptist So- 
ciety, at the cor- 
ner of Common- 
wealth Avenue 
and Clarendon 
Street. 

Adams Square, 
in Washington 
St. at the foot 
of Cornhill and 
Brattle Street, is 
decorated by a 
bronze statue of 
Samuel Adams, 
by Anne Whit- 
ney. It repre- 
sents him as he 
is supposed to 
have appeared 
as chairman of the committee of the town meeting the day 
of the Boston Massacre, when before Lieutenant-Governor 
Hutchinson and the Council in the Council Chamber of the 
Old State House, near at hand. 

The easterly part of Adams Square merges into Dock Square, 
wliich was at the head of the old Town Dock. Faneuil Hall 
(1763), the ^^ Cradle of Liberty," is on made land at the mar- 
gin of the dock. The Adams Square station of the Subway is 
not far off, and many cars pass at frequent intervals down 
Washington Street 

The original building was given to the town of Boston as a 
market house by Peter Faneuil (pronounced /}///r/) (1700- 
1743), whose mansion was on Tremont Street opj)osite King's 
Chapel Burying-Ground, The building was of brick, and sub- 
stantial, and was completed only a few months before Faneuil's 
death. It was one hundred feet long, forty feet wide, and two 
stories high, and the hall, which was an afterthought of the 
donor, held one thousand persons. 



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The building was burned in 1762, and was reconstructed at 
once by the town_, the old walls being used in the new one. 
The first public meeting in this hall was held March 14, 1763, 
when the patriot, James Otis, consecrated it to the cause of Li- 
berty. Before the Revolution the historic town meetings were 
held in the hall to debate "justifiable resistance" and the 
rights of the colonists. During the siege of Boston the hall 
was transformed into a playhouse by the British. Since the 
Revolution it has been the popular meeting place of citizens on 
important occasions, and the home of free speech. Daniel Web- 
ster, Wendell Phillips and Charles Sumner spoke here. In 1805 
the building was remodelled by the architect, Charles Bulfinch, 
when it was doubled in width and made a story higher, and in 
1 898 it was reconstructed with fireproof material on the Bul- 
finch plan. 

A market has been maintained in the ground floor and base- 
ment from the beginning. Across the street is the long granite 
Quincy Market, built during the administration of Mayor 
Josiah Quincy in 1825. 

There is a fine collection of portraits in Fanueil Hall, nota- 
bly the full-length Washington, by Gilbert Stuart; the portrait 
of Peter Faneuil ; Webster's Reply to Hayne, by G. P. A. 
Healy; and the "war governor," John A. Andrew, by William 
M. Hunt. 

The gilded grasshopper on the cupola of the building is the 
rejuvenated one of 1742, fashioned by " Deacon" Shem Drowne, 
who was immortalized by Hawthorne in "Drowne's Wooden 
Image." Drowne's shop was hard by. The Ancient and Honora- 
ble Artillery Company (l637) have occupied the rooms over the 
hall for many years. Here is a museum of relics of Revolutionary, 
Provincial and Colonial times. Open week days, 9 a. m. to Jf. p. m. 
Free. 

Passing tlirough Exchange Street from Dock Square brings 
us to the lower end of the Old State House (see cover of 
Guide-Book and other {)rinted matter for this session of the 
Association), which stands in tlie middle of the street at the 
head of State Street, formerly King Street. The first Town 



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House was built on this site in 1657^ and was destroyed by fire 
in 1711. The second Town and Province House (1712)^ on the 
same site^ was burned in 1747^ its walls only being preserved, 
and these are the " 
walls of the pre- 
sent building. It has 
been used as Town 
House, as Province 
Court House, Court 
House, State House 
and City Hall, It was 
restored in 1882 to 
its original appear- 
ance, after being 
used for business 
purposes. The lion 
and unicorn which 
ornament its eastern 
end are new and 
faithful rejn'oduc- 
tions of the origi- 
nal ones which were 
destroyed during the 
Revolution. The ar- 
chitecture of the 
building has not been changed, except to make entrances and 
exits to the basement for the Subway and East Boston Tun- 
nel. There is a window of twisted crown glass in the second 
story, out of which all the later royal governors of the pro- 
vince and the early governors of the Commonwealth looked. 
The eastern room on the second floor was the Council Chamhei^, 
and the western room the Court Chamber, the Hall of the Re- 
presentatives being between the two. The Bostonian Society has 
a collection of antiquities and relics in the upper stories. 

State Street Square, the portion of the street toward which 
the Old State House faces, together with the site of the Old 
State House, were originally the public uKirketstead in early 




THE OLD STATE HOUSE 
AND SCENE OF BOSTON MASSACRE 



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COUNCIL CHAMBER 
OLD STATE HOUSE 



colonial days. Here were placed the stocks^ whipping-post and 
pillory^ and this was the gathering-place of the populace. On 
the evening of March 5, 1770, occurred the Boston Massacre, 
so-called, when the soldiers shot down the people and the first 
blood of the Revolution was shed. Three were killed and two 
mortally wounded. The site is marked by a tablet on the wall 
at the corner of Exchange Street. Observe the circular arrange- 
ment of the paving stones in 
the street opposite the tablet 
marking the spot. Note the in- 
scription on No. 27 State St., 
the Brazer Building, marking 
the site of the first meeting- 
house (l632). 

The tall granite Boston 
Stock Exchange Building (at 
No. 58),farther down the street 
on the right-hand side, covers the site of Governor Winthrop's 
first house, and at the corner of Kilby Street stood the Bunch 
of Grapes Tavern, a celebrated inn in provincial times. 

At the corner of India Street is the United States Custom 
House (1847). Turning down India Street we come to the gran- 
ite Chamber of Commerce Building (1902). A little farther along 
is Custom House Street, where is the Old Custom House (Nos. 
14 to 20), in which Bancroft, the historian, and Nathaniel 
Hawthorne served as collector and customs officer, respectively. 
The building is now a story higher and is occujiied as a stable. 
"Old Custom House" is cut in the granite of the fac^-ade. 

Long lVharf(\l\(S) is at the foot of State Street. Here the 
royal governors made their formal landings, and the British 
soldiers came and went. 

At right angles to State Street is the waterside street, 
Atlantic Avenue, nearly on the line of the ancient Barricado, 
an early harbor defence, erected in l673 between the north 
and south points of the "Great Cove." Going to the north a 
short distance from Long Wharf wc come to T Wharf (No. 1 78), 
a part of the Barricado, the headquarters of the fishing industry 



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of Boston. There is a museum liere of interesting things pertain- 
ing to the sea, which is well worth seeing. The wharf is so named 
because of its original shape. 



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A''. L. Stebbms, Photo. 



T WHARF 



THE SOUTH END 

THE term South End has had different meanings at 
different periods in the history of Boston. At one 
time the present site of the Old South Churchy now 
in the heart of the business section, was considered to be in 
this district; this church, in f^ict, was so named because it was 
situated in what was then called the South End of Boston. As 
business encroached, the northerly limits of the South End 
have been pushed more and more to the south. For our jiur- 
pose the South End is considered to comprise that part of tlie 
city bounded on the north by Eliot and Kneeland streets, on 
the east by the South Bay, on the west by Huntington Ave- 
nue, and on the south by Roxbury. 

The South End as considered to-day has little of historical 
interest when one compares it with the North and West Ends. 
The only part that existed in colonial times was the narrow neck 
of land that occupied the present site of Washington Street 
(see map facing page 2). Until 1786 this neck was the only way 
by which carriages could enter Boston, and was flanked on 
either side by large expanses of marsh covered with water at 
high tide, and called respectively the South and Back Bays. 

Near the intersection of Washington and Dover streets there 
were, from early colonial times until the Revolution, forts that 
commanded this causeway. During the Revolution there were 
British and colonial fortifications at either end of this neck. At 
a little later time the region near Dover Street was the site of 
a number of brickyards, and here the gallows was situated dur- 
ing many years. 

With the exception of Washington Street, the whole region 
is of relatively recent origin, and was, like the Back Bay, re- 
claimed by filling marshes. The filling of the marshes that ex- 
tended along the sides of Washington Street began in the '3()'s, 
and was completed in the '6()'s. It was ex])ected that this region 
would become tlie "court end" of Boston, and in the 'oO's and 
'60's so many fine mansions were built about the small })arks 



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M. D. Miller, Photo. 

BOSTON DISPENSARY 



and sq iiares of the South 
End that its future was 
supposed to be assured. 
About 1870^ however, 
fashion began to forsake 
the South End for the 
newer Back Bay re- 
gion. This exodus, once 
started, was followed 
and hastened by the en- 
croachment of factories 
and small shops, and by 
a very considerable in- 
flux of people of foreign birth. These changes have been most 
complete on the east of this district. On the w^est there are 
still some people who have clung to their old homes in spite 
of the change in fashion, as is the case of Louise Chandler 
Moulton, who still resides at No. 28 Rutland Square. 

The greater part of this region, however, is one of small 
shops, humble homes, tenements and lodging-houses. That part 
of the South End that borders the Back Bay has been, and still 
is, the "^^student quarter" of Boston. 

The main thoroughfare is Washington Street. Shortly after 
entering this street at the northerly edge of this district, we 
come, on the left, to Bennet Street. Here is situated the Bos- 
ton Dispensary, the oldest medical charity in Boston. This in- 
stitution, which was founded in 179^^ was the third of its kind 
in the country. The idea was to give gratuitous medical treat- 
ment to the worthy sick, either at their homes or at the dis- 
pensary physician's office. For many years the office of the 
apothecary was at No. 92 Washington Street, where hung, as a 
sign, a crude representation of the Good Samaritan, now to be 
seen in the dispensary. 

This plan of seeing patients in their homes, or at the physi- 
cian's office, was followed out until 18,56. Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, when a dispensary physician in 1837, urged upon the 
managers the importance of establishing a consulting room. In 



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1856 a building, occupying the site of the present dispensary, 
was secured, and since that time the work has been divided 
between the central station, which is like that of an ordinary 
out-patient dej^artment, and the district visiting, in which visits 
are made at the homes of patients. For this latter purpose the 
poorer parts of the city are divided into fourteen districts, each 
one of which is under the care of a dispensary physician, who 
is accompanied on his visits by a nurse appointed and paid by 
the Instructive District Nursing Association, founded in 1886. 
The nurse spends the whole of the day looking after the new 
and old patients in her district. 

^ , The main part of the pre- 

sent building was erected in 
1883, and enlarged in 1900. 
It is already too small for its 
purpose, and further addi- 
tions are planned. The dis- 
pensary has a staff of about 
one hundred. Nearly one 
hundred thousand visits are 
THE OLD BOSTON DISPENSARY ^.^^^ ^^ ^i^g central station 

annually, while the district physicians make between twenty 
and twenty-five thousand calls. 

At the foot of Bennet Street, facing on Harrison Avenue, is 
the south branch of the Boston Lijing-in Hospital, where the 
students of the Harvard Medical School reside while they are 
caring for their obstetric cases under the supervision of the 
physicians of the hospital. 

Continuing out Washington Street, one comes, at Castle 
Street, to the place where the superstructure of the Elevated 
Road branches to the east and west. Here is situated, on the 
right, the Wells Memorial Institute, the headquarters of the 
Central Labor LTnion and a large number of trade unions. This 
institution provides for instruction in trades and domestic arts, 
and furnishes a meeting-place for various organizations. 

The Boston Female Asylum, on the other side of the street, 
is one of the very old institutions of Boston. It receives and 




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cares for destitute girls. It was established early in the last 
century^ and has some seventy-five beds. 

On Florence Street, a little farther south, is aSY. Stephens 
Episcopal Church. This society does the most important work 
of the Protestant churches in the South End. Dover Street 
is one of the main thoroughfares leading to South Boston. 
On the right, midway between Washington Street and the 
bridge, is one of Boston's Public Baths. In the channel is a 
swimming-bath during the summer, which is entered from this 
bridge. 

Farther south on Washington Street one finds, on the right, 
Waltham Street. Here, at No. 41, is the Washingtonian Home, 
an institution for the care and treatment of male alcoholics. It 
has accommodations for about 
thirty patients. 

On the left of Washington 
Street, at the corder of Maiden 
Street, is the Cathedral of the 
Holy Cross, a large and impos- 
ing stone structure. This is the 
largest Catholic church in New 
England, and is the headquar- 
ters of the archdiocese. The 
archbishop's house and offices 
are behind the cathedral, fa- 
cing Harrison Avenue. In front 
of the cathedral is a bronze 
statue of Christopher Colum- 
bus, by Alois Buyens. 

Beyond this point such cross 
streets as continue the same 
nameon both sides of Washington Streethave the prefix'^ East" 
added to that part at the left, and "West" to that on the right. 

At Brookline Street one comes to two open squares, — Frank- 
lin on the left, and Blackstone on the right. At the corner of 
East Brookline Street, facing Franklin Square, the Salvation 
Army is erecting a '^People's Palace," which will also be the 




ST. EIJ7\I]FTH 



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headquarters of the army for New England. On the opposite 
side of the square is the FrankHn Square House, a hotel for 
young workingwomen. It occupies the building that was for- 
merly the New England Conservatory of Music, and which, pre- 
vious to that, had been the St. James Hotel. Beyond the Frank- 
lin Square House is the old, but not particularly interesting. 
South Cemetery. 

At No. 61 West Brookline Street, and facing Blackstone 
Square, is St. ElizabetJis Ho.spital, in cha.rge of the Franciscan Sis- 
ters. This institution was founded in 1868, incorporated in 1872, 
and has been on its present site since 1888. The hospital occu- 




BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL 
AND TENT WARDS TTSF.I) I'OIf SOLDI KHS AT THE TIME OE THE SPANISH WAR 

pies several old mansions that have been remodelled and added 
to, to suit its j)urp()se. The entrance. No. ()1, is the old residence 
of Justin Winsor, for many years the librarian of Harvard Col- 
lege Library, and later of the Boston Public Library. St. Eliza- 
beth's is a general hospital of about one hundred beds. It has 
medical, surgical and gynecological and obstetrical wards, 
besides the usual out-patient de])artments. This institution has 
been an important factor in the development of gynecology 



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in this community. At present only women and children are 
admitted as ward })atients. The number of ward patients treated 
is between eight and nine hundred annually. Connected with 
the hospital is a training school for nurses. 

Across Blackstone Square from St. Elizabeth's^at No. 40 West 
Newton Street, is the Mater nitij Department of the Massachusetts 
Homeopathic Hospital, with seventeen beds. In 1904 they cared 
for three hundred and twenty-nine })atients. 

Leaving Blackstone Square one comes, on the left, to Worces- 
ter Square. Here, at No. 3, is the Boothhi/ Surgical Hospital. 
It is a private surgical hospital, receiving the patients of any 
reputable physician. 

East Springfield Street, which is next beyond Worcester 
Square, is the most direct way to the main entrance of the Bos- 
ton Cliy Hospital, which is situated on Harrison Avenue, one 
block east of Washington Street. 

At No. 691 Massachusetts Avenue, to the left of Washington 
Street, is the Neiv England Deaconess Hospital, under the care 
of the deaconesses of the Methodist Episco})al Church. This 
institution has fifteen beds, used for medical and surgical cases. 
It has as yet no regular staff. A site for a new hospital in Long- 
wood has been purchased, and the corner stone of a new build- 
ing has been laid. 

The Boston City Hospital 

An institution which will well repay the careful inspection of 
both the medical and lay visitor is the Citij Hospital. To its 
various departments are admitted cases of acute disease only, 
or those cases which are capable of being relieved in a reasona- 
ble time. Chronic cases, except under extraordinary conditions, 
are referred to the Almshouse Hospital on Long Island in Boston 
Harbor. Since it is a municipal institution, supported by the 
taxpayers, its patients are drawn only from the population of 
Greater Boston. 

Although but half the age of its elder sister, the Massachu- 
setts General Hospital, and naturally less rich in traditions and 
historical prestige, the Boston City Hosj)ital has, as might have 



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been expected^ outstripped it in actual size^ and vies with it in 
friendly and generous rivalry in the relief of the sick poor^ the 
promotion of medical education and the increase of knowledge. 
It is interesting to note that the first benefactor of the hos- 
pital, whose bequest had much to do with its actual foundation, 
was undoubtedly impelled thereto by the remembrance of the 
skilful and generous treatment which he had received at the 
older institution, and his realization of the need of still further 
extending these blessings among the sick poor. Elisha Good- 
now, an old-time Boston merchant, was the second patient ad- 
mitted to the Massachusetts General Hospital immediately 
after its foundation, in 1821, where he underwent a successful 
operation for stone at the hands of Dr. Warren. On his death, 
thirty years later, he left the bulk of his estate to the City of 
Boston to establish a free hospital. It was not, however, until 
1861 that the City Council ap})ropriated additional money and 
appointed a committee to build the new City Hospital. In 1863 
the first board of trustees was appointed, and in 1864 the hos- 
pital was formally dedicated. Of the original consulting and 
visiting staff there are but two survivors, Drs. David W. Chee- 
ver and John G. Blake, of the surgical and medical services 
respectively. As a coincidence, the first ward visits were made 
on the two sides by these two gentlemen, each with a colleague, 
and the first operation, an excision of a malignant growth of 
the cheek, was performed on the first Friday in June, 1864, by 
Dr, Cheever, in the amphitheatre beneath the dome. 

The hospital thus founded with 200 beds, three services, sur- 
gical, medical and ophthalmic, and a staff" of 18, has increased 
in forty-two years to a composite institution affording 935 beds, 
containing nine departments and having a staff of 72, all under 
the direction of a single board of trustees and administered 
by a single superintendent. Last year there were received and 
treated as in-patients — 

123 

447 

9,236 



Medical Cases 


3,464 


J Krai Cases 


Surgical Cases 


4,169 


Remaining over 


( ii/n e( 'olorrical Cases 


937 




OpJi l/i a Im ic ( rises 


9^) 


Total 



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There were treated in the Out-Patient Department 66,789 per- 
sons. In the pathological laboratory there were made and exam- 
ined 1 4,744 cultures. The hospital ambulances made 3,090 trips. 
In all departments 149 female nurses are employed. The total 
population under this one administration consists of 1,250 per- 
sons. The gross cost of all departments forthe yearwas$486,994. 
In the forty-two years of its existence there have been appro- 
priated by the City Council nearly twelve millions of dollars 
for construction and maintenance. It is doubtful if any city 
of equal size has dealt so generously in so short a time with a 
municipal hospital. In addition the hospital has received be- 
quests and trust funds to the amount of $1,227,573. 

The visitor enters by the gate lodge on Harrison Avenue 
nearly opposite Springfield Street. This building contains, be- 
sides the entrance offices, the rooms devoted to the medical out- 
patient department. He should now turn to the left and gain a 
point whence a view of the really imposing fa^'ade of the cen- 
tral Administration Building may be obtained. The surgical pa- 
vilions are on the left, and the medical pavilions on the right. 
This group constitutes the original buildings. They are after 
the French Renaissance in general style and fashioned on a 
generous and ambitious scale, the central one in particular re- 
calling classic models. In the portico, with its columns and ped- 
iment surmounted by a dome one hundred and forty-eight feet 
in height, there is a certain resemblance to St. Peter's at Rome, 
and the approach across a broad, open lawn and garden is in 
keeping with the dignity of the whole. 

Ascending the wide stone steps the visitor enters the Ad- 
ministration Building. On the left are executive offices; on the 
right the private offices of the Superintendent and Resident 
Physician, Dr. G. H. M. Rowe. On the second floor are the private 
apartments of the Superintendent, and above these is the now 
unused amphitheatre under the dome. Turning to the left we 
cross an open corridor and enter the new surgical building, and 
gain access to the operating theatre by a door on the right. Here 
is a large amphitheatre, circular in form, constructed entirely 
of marble, terazzo, steel and glass, capable of seating two hun- 



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dred persons. Conveniently situated are etherizing, recovery 
and surgeon's consulting rooms. Passing through the farther 
door we find the sterilizing and instrument rooms, all modern 
in equipment and design. Opening from the long corridor be- 
yond are five small operating rooms, with north light and com- 
plete in construction and furnishings necessary for the most 
exacting aseptic surgical work. At the farther end of the cor- 
ridor are small recovery wards for the reception of patients after 
operation. The visitor should now descend to the floor below 
and see the four completely equipped accident rooms and two 
casualty wards, where cases can be cared for until they are in 
a condition to be transferred to the regular wards without dis- 
turbing the other patients. Here also are several bathrooms 
with set tubs designed especially for the immediate treatment 
of cases of insolation, which, surprising as it may seem, are only 
too common in Boston in July and August. 

Time will be saved if now we leave this building by the 
Accident Door and cross the short intervening space to the 
recently constructed Surgical Out-Patient Building, w^here are 
housed also the departments for the treatment of diseases of 
the eye, ear, throat, nervous system, and diseases of women. 
This building is five stories in height, and designed especially 
for handling large numbers of out-patients as conveniently and 
expeditiously as possible. 

The visitor should now return by the Accident Door and the 
stairway to the surgical corridor and inspect the three old- 
fashioned but attractive wards of the original surgical pavilion. 
Returning, he should leave by the door which originally ad- 
mitted him to the surgical corridor, turn to the left and reach 
a two-storied brick building containing two surgical wards, 
W and X, which are models in respect to the most approved 
construction and furnishing. On the way he has passed, on the 
left, a cheaply constructed ward of corrugated iron and wood, 
which was built in the days when hospital gangrene and sepsis 
made it seem advisable to build temporary structures only, to 
be torn down after a few years and replaced by new ones. Mo- 
dern methods have obviated this necessity, and ward P is, as 




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a matter of fact, one of the healthiest and most satisfactory in 
many respects in the hospital. 

Returning now to the Administration Building, the visitor 
should enter the annex behind it, which contains the Library 
of more than four thousand volumes, clinical record rooms, &c. 
He may be interested to examine the kitchen immediately be- 
low, very modern and complete in every respect and perfectly 
ventilated. Behind this again is the laundry, equipped with 
labor-saving devices which care for an average of one hundred 
thousand pieces per week. 

We must now return to the Administration Building, turn 
to the left and again to the right, and visit the medical wards, 
six in number, grouped in a general way like those we have 
already seen. The general features are the same, and no descrip- 
tion is necessary. The two wards devoted to the gynecological 
service are on the third floor and include a separate operating 
room and adjuncts. Passing back along the open-air passage- 
way toward the rear of these buildings, we pass ward T, similar 
to ward P, wards A and E, devoted to the care of noisy and 
alcoholic patients, and reach the most recently constructed 
building, wards K, L and M, designed especially for cases not 
suitable for open wards, — erysipelas, sepsis, and non-alcoholic 
patients requiring restraint. These wards are divided into small 
rooms, accommodating for the most part but two patients each. 

Mention should here be made of the Tent Wards by which 
in mild weather the capacity of the hospital may be increased 
in time of need. Side-wall military tents with board floors are 
placed in the open space to the west of the medical pavilions. 
The most notable development of this system was in 1898, 
when on four days' notice the hospital received and cared for 
a steamship-ful of sick and wounded soldiers from the Spanish 
War, two hundred in number. 

The building devoted to Pathology and Clinical Laboratory 
Work stands apart just to the west of wards K and L. It con- 
tains a post-mortem amphitheatre constructed entirely of metal 
and marble, culture rooms, clinical laboratoi:ies, special research 
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46 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

rooms, &c. Attached to it is a mortuary where twenty bodies 
may be preserved by artificial refrigeration, and a mortuary 
chapel, simple and dignified, where funeral services may be 
held. In accordance with the trend of modern ideas, much stress 
has been laid in this hospital upon pathology. Since 1891 the 
position of pathologist has been held by men w ho have devoted 
themselves exclusively to the study and teaching of this science 
and to the training of young men. There is at present a corps 
of eight men, — visiting pathologists, assistants and internes. 
Men trained here are called to other hospitals and to medical 
schools as teachers. A recent graduate has just been appointed 
by the United States Government as Director of the Leprosy 
Investigation Station at Molokai, Hawaii. An average of 250 
autopsies are performed every year, each of which is worked 
up bacteriologically and histologically, and 900 surgical speci- 
mens are studied. The cabinets contain 27,000 mounted micro- 
scopic sections. Among the many valuable contributions which 
have been made here to Pathology and Bacteriology may be 
mentioned three monographs, two of which are based exclu- 
sively on cases coming to autopsy in this laboratory, namely, 
the monograph on Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, and 
that on Diphtheria. The third, on Variola and Vaccinia, is based 
on material obtained outside the hospital, but in large part 
through the energy of an assistant in pathology who Avas given 
leave of absence by the hospital for that purpose. Atten- 
tion should also be called to shorter papers on such subjects 
as Typhoid Fever, Scarlet Fever, Acute and Subacute Glo- 
merular Nephritis, and on neuropathological subjects. Useful 
technical contributions have been made, such as the aniline 
blue connective-tissue stain and the phospho-tungstic acid 
hematin stain for neuroglia, fibroglia and myoglia fibrils. Two 
discoveries by members of the pathological staff deserve spe- 
cial mention : the demonstration that the protozt)()n discovered 
by Wasielewski and Guarniere undergoes an additional cycle 
of development within the cell nuclei in variola, but not in vac- 
cinia; and the discovery of protozoon-like bodies in the skin of 
scarlet fever cases and in artificial vesication from living cases. 



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There still remains to be visited one of the most notable 
departments of the hospital, — that devoted to contagious dis- 
eases^ the South Department, so-called. This group of buildings 
constitutes practically a separate hospital, though under the 
same trustees and superintendent. The visitor should leave 
the grounds of the hospital proper by the entrance lodge, visit- 
ing, if he desires, the two fine buildings devoted to the Nurses' 
Home, where is housed the second training school in point of 
age in the United States. He should now turn to the left and 
cross Massachusetts Avenue diagonally to the entrance of the 
South Department. Here are seven buildings of brick with 
marble trimmings, in style after the Federal period of archi- 
tecture. The central Administration Building is devoted to the 
executive offices and private apartments of the Resident Phy- 
sician, Dr. John H. McCollom. On either hand is a pavilion, one 
devoted entirely to cases of scarlet fever and the other to diph- 
theria. Each pavilion is one hundred and sixty feet long, and each 
floor is divided by transverse corridors into four sections. These 
corridors are entirely open at either end, so that every floor is 




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thus divided into four complete isolating wards, each ward 
separated from the others by the open air. In the two pavil- 
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four to eight beds. At the north end of each floor is an open- 
air loggia^ with ornamental ironwork^ and at the south end is 
a large semi-octagonal ward with many windows^ constituting a 
solarium for convalescents. The inside finish throughout is of 
glazed brick, with terazzo flooring. There are separate stairways 
and dumb-waiters for each story, — in other w ords, there is no 
direct communication between stories, without the necessity 
of first going outdoors. Small observation wards on each floor 
afford opportunity to study cases before the diagnosis has be- 
come certain, A nurses' home, laundry and domestic building 
complete this group. The visitor who is especially interested 
in the treatment of contagious diseases is advised to spend some 
time in the South Department, for its widespread reputation 
justifies us in saying that this is the finest contagious hospital in 
our country. Here the mortality from diphtheria has been re- 
duced by the aid of antitoxin and the best of hygienic condi- 
tions from fifty-four per cent, to eight per cent. The hospital 
is usually overcrowded. Designed for two hundred and sixty 
beds, it has accommodated three hundred and sixty patients 
at one time. It was originally planned to have a measles ward 
in addition to the present buildings, and this improvement is 
confidently expected in the near future. 

To meet the demand for a branch in the down-town district, 
where prompt relief could be given to accident or other urgent 
cases occurring in the neighborhood, the Boston City Hospital 
Relief Station was built in I9OI. It is situated in Haymarket 
Square, which can best be reached by surface or elevated cars 
via the Subway. No especial interest attaches to this branch 
save that it is a model of its kind. The best of everything that 
could be obtained was used in its construction. It is a brick and 
sandstone structure, three stories in height, with a portico of 
eight Doric columns. The first floor includes the executive 
offices, waiting rooms, and five surgical dressing rooms, fur- 
nished like modern operating rooms and finished with glazed 
tile dadoes and marble. On the second floor are three wards of 
six beds each, two large operating rooms comjilete in every 
detail, also instrument and supply rooms. The third floor affords 



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quarters for nurses and maids, and the roof may be used as a 
roof-garden for either patients or staff. The north end of the 
first story is entirely separated from the rest of that floor and 
contains a stable and ambulance station. The ambulances can 
drive entirely within an enclosed yard where the transfer of 
the patient can be effected without publicity. An ambulance 
is always kept harnessed and calls are responded to by an in- 
terne with the greatest possible des})atch. 

With the exception of the main ambulance station and the 
power house on Albany Street and the Convalesced Home, with 
its fourteen acres of land in Dorchester, the main features of the 
Boston City Hospital have now been described. It has been said 
that one index of the intelligence and public spirit of a com- 
munity is the way in which it provides for its sick poor, and in 
this respect Boston has every reason to be proud of her record. 

The Washington Market, No. 1883 Washington Street, is 
the site of one of the Continental fortifications during the 
siege of Boston. Beyond this, the street is quite devoid of in- 
terest. 

Running parallel with Washington Street, and to the east of 
it, are Harrison Avenue and Albany Street. Harrison Avenue 
has little of interest until we come to East Concord Street, 
where we find the Church of the Immaculate Conception , in charge 
of the Jesuit fathers. Back of the church, and facing James 
Street, is the Boston College and High School, also in charge 
of the Jesuits. The residence of the faculty is next to the 
church on Harrison Avenue. This society was established here 
in 1863. 

At No. 750 Harrison Avenue is the Homeopathic Medical Dis- 
pensary, until recently a separate institution, but now the Out- 
Pa tient Department of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hos- 
pital. This dispensary has a staff of seventy-five members, and 
treats between nineteen and twenty thousand patients annu- 
ally. The present building represents only the basement and 
first story of the architect's plan. Beyond it, on Stoughton 
Street, is the nurses' home. Farther to the east on Stoughton 



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Street is the hospital, which, with the Boston University School 
of Medicine (homeopathic), are built on the plot of ground 




Purdy 
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ADMINISTRATION HIIIDINC. SURGICAL WING 

MASSx\CHUSETTS HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL 

bounded by Stoughton, Albany and East Concord streets. This 
hospital was incorporated in 1855, and has occupied its present 
site since 1871. It is a general hospital, having about two hun- 
dred and fifty beds, but until recently has had no out-patient 
department. The number of ward patients in 1905 was three 
thousand nine hundred and seventeen. The wards are utilized 
for giving clinical instruction. The Boston University School 
of Medicine, which is the only homeopathic school in Boston, 
was established in 1873. It took over at that time the New 
England Female College, founded in 184-8. The school has a 
teaching corps of fifty. The number of students in 1905 was 
one hundred. 

At No. 11^ Southampton Street is the Smallpox' Hospital, of 
about sixty beds, under the charge of the Boston Board of 
Health. It was at this institution that some of the investiga- 
tions on the etiology, patliology and clinical manifestations of 
smallpox were conducted during the epidemic of 1901-2, which 
resulted in the noted monograph on smallpox, edited by Dr. 
W. T. Councilman, of the Harvard Medical School. 

To the west of Washington Street and running parallel, are 



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Shawmut Avenue and Tremont Street. Shawmut Avenue has 
nothing that is of interest to the visitor except the Morgan 
Memorial Chapel^ by the railroad^ where is the People's Forum 
for the public discussion of interesting questions. Tremont 
Street beyond Castle Street is a wide street. There are several 
attractive churches on this street between Dartmouth and 
Worcester streets, and on West Newton Street, between Tre- 
mont Street and Shawmut Avenue, is the Girls' High School. 
From Massachusetts Avenue to Roxbury Crossing the street is 
largely one of tenement houses and small shops. On Ruggles 
Street is the Buggies Street Baptist Church, famed for its choir. 

West of Tremont Street, beginning at Park Square, is Colum- 
bus Avenue. In Park Square, opposite the old Park Square Sta- 
tion, which was given up on the completion of the })resent South 
Terminal, is the Emancipation Grou]), by Thomas Ball. From 
Park Square the "Seeing Boston" electric cars start at 10 a,m. 
and 2 p.m., daibj. Fare, ^fiftij cents. On the left-hand side of 
Columbus Avenue is the armory of the First Corps of Cadets, 
a splendid granite building on the corner of Ferdinand Street. 
On the corner of Berkeley Street one sees, on the left, the First 
Presbyterian Church, and on the right the People's Temple. 
The Youth's Companion Building, the home of the popular 
paper of that name, is on the southwesterly corner of Berkeley 
Street. 

On Berkeley Street, between Columbus Avenue and Tre- 
mont Street, is the building of the Young Women's Christian 
Association, and on the corner of Tremont Street, Odd Fellows 
Hall. On Dartmouth Street, corner of Appleton, is the Girls' 
Normal School ; and off the same street, between Warren Ave- 
nue and Montgomery Street, are the Boston Latin and Eng- 
lish High schools. On the corner of West Newton Street is the 
Union Church (Congregational Trinitarian), and just behind it 
the Home for Little Wanderers. On Columbus Avenue, beyond 
Northampton Street, is a public plaj^ground, of which Boston 
has several, and beyond this the National League Baseball 
Grounds. 

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stitutions, homes, day nurseries, clubs, settlements, &c. One 
writer has spoken of the South End as '^'^the most charitied 
region in Christendom." 



THE BACK BAY 

THE Back Bay District extends from Charles Street 
below the Common to the Brookline line. It is 
bounded on the south by Boylston Street to Copley 
Square, and then by Huntington Avenue, and on the north 
by the Charles River. A hundred years ago the Back Bay was 
a beautiful sheet of water, beyond which one could see from 
the Common both Brookline and Cambridge, and over which 
were carried the troops for Lexington on the 18th of April, 
1775. The individuality of Bostonians is shown nowhere bet- 
ter than in the dwellings of the Back Bay. Instead of the dreary 
rows of buildings all alike, seen in so many American cities, in 
Boston each man has built his house to suit himself. 

In 1814 the Boston & Roxbury Mill Corporation was formed, 
under whose direction dams were built later across the bay for 
the purpose of utilizing the water power. In 1857 the Com- 
monwealth, to- 
gether with the 
Boston Water 
Power Com- 
pany, began fill- 
ing in the bay, 
and this work 
went on for 
thirty years. On 
the sale of its 
share of the 
made land the i.. h. shattud. Photo. 
Commonwealth "'"'"'' ''*'*°™ •""*" 

made several million dollars' profit. 

The Public Garden, enclosed by Charles, Beacon, Arling- 
ton and Boylston streets, was set aside as a park in 1859j, 
shortly after the filling in began. It has been known as Round 
Marsh, and was in early days a part of the Common, and was 
bordered by Frog Lane, now Boylston Street. The Public Gar- 




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den is a beautiful park, twenty- 
four acres in extent. The pond, 
spanned by an artistic bridge, is 
thronged with skaters in win- 
ter, and in summer the swan 
boat is much in evidence. The 
Garden is planted with trees of 
almost every variety which can 
grow in the New England cli- 
mate, and the many flower beds 
display all our outdoor plants 
from early spring to autumn. 
The most notable statue in 
the Garden, one of the best 
in the city, is the equestrian 
statue of Washinf]^ton, 




bv 



L. H. Shattuck, Photo. 

WASHINGTON STATUE 

Thomas Ball, that faces the Commonwealth Avenue parkway. 
On the Beacon Street side are the statue of Edward Everett, 
by W. W. Story, and the Ether Monument, by J. Q. A. Ward, 
erected in 1868. The latter was the gift of Thomas Lee, in 
honor of the discovery of ether, 
but it makes no mention of 
Morton or Jackson, as at that 
time the controversy over the 
priority of discovery was still 
warm. Dr. Holmes suggest- 
ed that it be inscribed "to 
e(i)ther." Other statues are 
those of Charles Sumner, by 
Tiiomas Ball ; of Colonel Tho- 
mas Cass, by R. E. Brooks, and, 
facing the Arlington Street 
Church, a statue of W. E. Chan- 
ning, by Herbert Adams. 

From the Garden the eight 
short cross streets north of 
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ning respectively with the first eight letters of the alphabet. 
Beyond these is Massachusetts Avenue, the great thorough- 
fare leading to Cambridge in one direction and to Dorchester 
in the other. 

Beacon Street is the long street nearest the river. Many of 
Boston's most beautiful residences are on this street^and now^as 
formerly,it is the homeof many of hercitizens best known in the 
various activities of the city. No. i241 is the home of Mrs. Julia 
Ward Howe. No. 296 was for over twenty years Dr. Holmes's 
residence, and now belongs to his son, Judge Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, of the United States Supreme Court. At No. 392 lives 
James =Ford Rhodes, the distinguished historian. The University 
Club is at No. 270, near Exeter Street. It has a large membership 
of college graduates living in Boston and its vicinity. 

On the corner of Massachusetts Avenue, and near Harvard 
Bridge, is the Mt. Vernon Church (Congregational), formerly in 
Ashburton Place. At the corner of Beacon Street and Charles- 
gate East, on the riverside, is the home of Thomas W. Lawson. 

This is the site of the old 
"mill dam" of the Rox- 
bury Mill Corporation. 
One of the poplar trees 
which bordered Beacon 
Street in the early nine- 
teenth century is still to 
be seen at Number 591. 
At Charlesgate West, Bay 
State Road leads to the 
right, running along the 
riverbank. It is a new 
and fashionable street, 
and on it there are many 
fine houses. 

Marlborough St. starts 
from the Public Garden, 
and runs parallel to Bea- 
con, to a point where it 




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meets the Fenway, about a block beyond Massachusetts Ave- 
nue. This street has sometimes been called "Doctors' Row/' 
as in its short length of a mile it has about one hundred and 
twenty-five doctors' offices and homes. The First Church (Con- 
gregational Unitarian), at the corner of Berkeley Street, is the 
descendant of the First Church of Christ in Boston, a society 
^ established by Dudley, Winthrop 

and others soon after the founding 
of the town. A statue of Winthrop, 
by R. S. Greenough, very fittingly 
stands in the churchyard. 

Starting again from the Garden 
we look from its principal entrance 
on Arlington Street down the long 
tree-lined mall of Commonwealth 
Avenue. This is Boston's most 
beautiful street, two hundred and 
twenty feet wide, with a road 
on either side of the pleas- 
ant parkway. At intervals 
down this mall are placed 
the following statues : Alex- 
ander Hamilton, by William 
Rimmer ; General John Glover, 
by Martin Milmore; W^illiam 
Lloyd Garrison, by O. L. Warner, 
and at the end of the mall — just beyond Massachusetts Ave- 
nue — Leif Ericson, a beautiful, ideal figure, by Anne Whitney. 
On either side of the avenue are the homes of prosperous citi- 
zens, with here and there a fine apartment house or hotel. The 
Vevdomc, at the corner of Dartmouth Street, and the Somerset, 
just beyond Massachusetts Avenue on Charlesgate East, are 
the most noteworthy. At No. 40 is the College Club, with a 
membership made up of the graduates of all the women's col- 
leges. The Algonquin Club is on the op})osite side of the street, 
between Exeter and Fairfield streets. Its membership is com- 
posed largely of prominent business men. The First Baptist 




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Church, with its massive Florentine tower, at the corner of 

Clarendon Street, is the only church on the avenue. The late 

H. H, Richardson was the 

architect. It was erected 

in 1873 to succeed the 

historic meeting-house 

in Brattle Square, and 

was purchased by the 

Baptists. 

Next to the south of 
the avenue is Newbury 
Street. On the corner of 
Arlington Street, the 
New Church Union, re- 
presentative of the Mas- 
sachusetts Association of 
the New Jerusalem 
Church, has its library 
and offices. At No. 4 is 
the St, Botolph Club, its 
membership being drawn 
from artists, literary and 
professional men. In its art gallery are displayed every winter 
notable exhibitions of painting and sculpture. Nearly opposite 
the St. Botolph Club is Emanuel Church (Protestant Episcopal). 
The Boston Library, at No. 114 Newbury Street, is a private 
circulating library, incorporated in 1794. No. 35 is the home 
of Margaret Deland, the authoress. At the corner of Berkeley 
Street is the Central Church (Congregational Trinitarian), beau- 
tiful without and within. It is the most noteworthy building 
on the street. The architect was R. M. Upjohn. 

Just off Newbury Street, at No. 233 Clarendon Street, is the 
rectory of Triniti/ Church, where Phillips Brooks lived for many 
years. 

The Art Club, on the corner of Dartmouth and Newbury 
streets, has a large membership, and holds several exhibitions 
during the year. These exhibitions are usually of the work of 




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many artists, while those of the St. Botolph Club are "one 
man" exhibitions. 

At the corner of Exeter Street one sees on the right-hand 
side the Spiritual Temple, where on Sunday evenings the spirits 
of the departed may be consulted. Across the street is the 
Prince School^ a public grammar school. On the first left-hand 
corner stands the South Congregational Church (Unitarian)^ of 
which Edward Everett Hale has been the minister for many 
years. The Horace Mann School, where the deaf are taught to 
speak and read the speech of others from their lips^ is near by. 
The remaining corner is occupied by the Normal Art School. 
Starting on Boylston Street, from the Public Garden, the 
Arlington Street Church first commands our attention. It is of 
stately architecture, reminiscent of Sir Christopher Wren. It has 
a beautiful chime of sixteen bells in its tower. This is one of 
the prominent churches of the Unitarian faith. 

Almost opposite this church on Boylston Street were the 
offices of the distinguished Drs. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch and 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, for Boylston Street was once preemi- 
nently a doctors' street. Now there are almost no residences on 
this street, but gay, beautiful shops and public buildings. 

At No. 419 Boylston Street is the Warren Chambers. This 
building was built as an office-building for physicians, and is the 
only one of its kind in Boston. It takes its name from the War- 
ren family, so long prominent in the medical life of this city. 
On one corner of Boylston and Berkeley streets the Young 

Men's Christian Associa- 
tion has a fine building, 
and on the opposite cor- 
ner is the dignified build- 
ing of the Natural Hist on/ 
Society. The Boston So- 
ciety of Natural History 
was founded in 1 S.S 1 . This 
building was erected in 
1864. On the first fioor is 
the library, with about 




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forty thousand volumes in the building. There are lecture halls 
and rooms for instruction, as well as carefully arranged and 
clearly labelled ethnological, zoological, geological and botani- 
cal collections. On the fourth floor is a magnificent array of 
birds' nests and eggs. The museum is open dailij, e.vcept Sundaij, 
from 9 a.m. to J/,.30 p.7n. The admission fee of twenty -Jive cents is 
not asked on Wednesdays and Saturdays. 

The remainder of 
the block in which 
the Natural History 
Building is situated 
is occupied by the 
two main buildings 
of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Techno- 
logy/. This institution 
was founded with 
state aid, in I86I, by 
Professor William B. 
Rogers, as a school of Massachusetts institute of technology 
applied science. As such it has no equal in this country. 
Opened with fifteen students in 1865, it now has over fifteen 
hundred, with a teaching corps of two hundred and twenty-eight 
members. The two buildings on Boylston Street, the Rogers 
Building nearer Berkeley Street and the Walker Building at 
the corner of Clarendon Street, were the first buildings of the 
Institute. Others are situated in Trinity Place and on Garrison 
Street. In the Rogers Building, the dignified structure occu- 
pying the middle of the block, are the administrative offices 
of the institution, and also its library. Here, too, is Huntington 
Hall, in which are given every year the Free Lecture Courses 
of the Lowell Institute, established in 18.S9 by the will of John 
Lowell. 

The Hotel Brunswick occupies the corner of Clarendon Street 
south of the Technology buildings. Beyond this, one comes to 
Copley Square, triangular in shape, and o])eniiig into Dart- 
mouth, Boylston and Blagden streets, St. James' Avenue and 




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Huntington Avenue and Trinity Place. This Square was named 
for John Singleton Copley, the artist, and around it are some 
of the most beautiful buildings and important institutions of 
the city. 

The crowning beauty of the Square is Trinity Church, the 
masterpiece of the great architect, H. H. Richardson. It stands 
an ennobling and uplifting influence for the thousands who 
daily pass through the Square, even though they may never 
enter its portals. The style was characterized by the architect 
as a free rendering of the French Romanesque. In plan the 
church is a Greek cross, with a semi-circular apse added to the 
eastern arm. The decorations inside are by John Lafarge, and 
many of the windows are by the same artist. Placed in the side 

of the cloister leading 
from the eastern en- 
trance of the church 
to Clarendon Street, 
is a i)art of the origi- 
nal tracery from a 
window of the ancient 
church of St. Botolph 
in Boston, England, of 
which John Cotton w as 
the rector for twenty- 
L.u.^hanuck,Thoto. ^"'" ' -^ -^-^' one years. This was 

TRINITY CHURCH presented to Trinity 

by the vicar of that church. Opposite this tracery a carved gran- 
ite rosette is imbedded in the wall of the church. This is all that 
remains of a former church of this j)arish, burned in the fire of 
1872. 

To the left of Trinity is the Westminster Hotel. Its upper 
cornice, now taken down, was long a subject of litigation, as its 
height was beyond the limit prescribed by the building laws. 
The Museum of Fine Arts, on the left side of Copley Square, 
is among the important museums of the country. The present 
building is far too small for the display of its treasures, many 
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Huntington Avenue^ for which the land has been purchased 
and the plans perfected. Owing to the present lack of room, 
the exhibition galleries often change their exhibits to display 
new or special objects of interest, and a catalogue giving the 
latest arrangement may be bought near the entrance. The gen- 
eral arrangement, however, remains unchanged. In the base- 
ment is placed a library and a very large collection of photo- 
graphs. An almost unrivalled collection of casts, some fine 
original antique marbles, Egyptian and other antiquities oc- 
cupy the first floor. Above are the picture galleries, and a col- 
lection of objects of Chinese and, particularly, Japanese art, 
said to be the finest in the world. There are also rooms for 
the display of textiles, 
ceramics, wood carv- 
ings, metals and coins. 
The Museum is open 
free on Saturdays, from 
9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on 
Sundayfroml to 5 p.m. 
Admission on other days 
Jrom 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 
is twenty-five cents. 
The hours on Monday 
are from 1 to 5 p.m. 

The Public Library, a noble granite structure, '^^ Built by 
the people and dedicated to the advancement of learning," as 
the inscription across its fa9ade declares, occupies the west- 
ern side of the Square. The building, which is rectangular in 
shape, with an enclosed court, is in the style of the French 
Renaissance. McKim, Mead & White, of New York, were the 
architects. The panels beneath the windows, with the excep- 
tion of the three panels above the doorway, bear the names of 
the world's greatest men. On the three centre panels are, to 
the left, the seal of Massachusetts ; in the middle, that of the 
Library; and on the right, the seal of the City of Boston. 

The Library is approached by a broad low flight of steps, 
ending in a platform. In the vestibule is a splendid bronze 




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figure of Sir Harry Vane, by Frederick MacMonnies. Beyond 
this are six bronze doors by D. C. French, — Poetry, Music, 

Wisdom, Know- 
ledge, Truth, 
Romance. In the 
floor of the en- 
trance hall are 
set the seal of 
the library and 
the signs of the 
zodiac, and in 
the ceiling are 
the names of 
eminent Bosto- 
nians. Halfway 
up the magnificent staircase, where it divides to the right and 
left, are two great marble lions, by Louis St. Gaudens, memorial 
gifts of the Second and Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Re- 
giments of the Civil War. The mural decorations along the stairs 
and the upper corridor are by Puvis de Chavannes, Passing to 
the left through a little lobby, decorated by E. E. Garnsey, one 
comes to the Deliverij Room, around which runs a gorgeous 
frieze by PMwin A. Abbey, illustrating the legend of Sir Cnda- 
had's search for the Holy Grail. Just beyond is the Catalogue 
Room, with an admirable dictionary catalogue. This room forms 
one end of Bates Hall, a great room 5218 feet long by 42 J feet 
wide, with a beautiful vaulted ceiling semi-domed at the ends. 
Bates Hall, named for the library's greatest benefactor, is de- 
voted to the interests of readers, of whom there are often three 
or four hundred present. 

Well down to the left, steps lead from Bates Hall to the 
Patent Room, where all the Patent Office Reports may be found. 
Beyond Bates Hall is the C/iih/ren'x Department, entered through 
a lobby, decorated by Joseph Lindon Smith. The ceiling of the 
inner room has a painting, "The Triumph of Time," by John 
Elliott. This is a reference and study room for the children. It 
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the younger students. The outer room also has open shelves, 
with tables provided for reading, and those in charge are al- 
ways ready to help the children in the use of the library. 

On the third floor are the special libraries, all of them con- 
taining rare and valuable books. They comjirise the Fine Arts 
Department, the Allen A. Brown Lihrarij of Music, and the Bar- 
ton, Barlow, Prince, Lewis, Bowel itch and Ticknor collections. On 
this floor there is also a lecture hall, and at either end of the 
long corridor are the paintings by John S. Sargent. 

I'he administration of library affairs is carried on by five 
trustees, who are appointed by the mayor, a librarian, and the 
various heads of departments. There are about two hundred 
and seventy-five assistants. 

This is the largest reference and circulating library in the 
United States, with a collection of about 900,000 volumes and 
a circulation of 1,500,000 volumes, not counting the books 
used at the library. While the circulation for home use is con- 
fined to citizens of Boston, any one — stranger as well as citi- 
zen — may use the books at the library. The library consists of 
the Central Library, ten branches, twenty-two delivery sta- 
tions, and small deposits in one hundred and three public and 
parochial schools and about seventy engine houses and city 
institutions, — in all, two hundred and one agencies for the dis- 
tribution of books. Some books are loaned every year to other 
libraries, and a few are borrowed. The city appropriates about 
$300,000 yearly, and the library has a further income of about 
$15,000 from trust funds. It publishes monthly bulletins and a 
yearly list of accessions, and various other lists of books on spe- 
cial subjects. It maintains its own bindery and printing estab- 
lishment. The Central Library, in Copley Square, is open from 
9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in summer, and an hour later in ivinter. The 
librarian is Mr. H. G. Wadlin.The library has recently entrusted 
to the care of the Boston Medical Library its collection of 
medical books. 

Across Boylston Street from the library rises the lofty 
Gothic tower of the New Old South Church, two hundred and 
forty-eight feet high, the tallest landmark in Boston. This 



64 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

church society — formerly worshipping in the historic building 

on Washington Street — is 
one of the most important 
churches of the Congre- 
gational Trinitarian faith 
in New England. Dr. G. A. 
Gordon is the pastor. 

Also on the Boylston St. 
side of Copley Sq. are the 
Girls' Latin School and the 
Second Church (Congrega- 
tional Unitarian). This 
church has had many dis- 
tinguished ministers, in- 
cluding the three Mathers, 
— Samuel, Increase and 
Cotton, — and Ralph Waldo 
Emerson. 

Going out Boylston 
THE NEW "old SOUTH " CHURCH Street from Copley Square, 
one comes, on the left, to the building of the Harvard Medical 
School. This is on the corner of Exeter Street, and has been 
the home of the school since it was moved from the North 
Grove Street building in 1883. At the end of the present school 
year this building will be given up for the new and beautiful 
buildings on Longwood Avenue. Directly behind the Medical 
School, facing on Exeter Street, is the clubhouse of the Boston 
Athletic Association. 

On the fifth floor of the building at No. 739 Boylston Street, 
the Boston Board of Health Lahorafory occupies a floor space of 
2,600 square feet. This laboratory is under the charge of a di- 
rector and two assistants, and renders great assistance to Bos- 
ton physicians by making all sorts of bacteriological examina- 
tions for them. The work is done free in all cases in which 
either the physician or the {)atient is a resident of Boston. The 
first work of this laboratory was almost entirely limited to the 
examination of cultures from cases of suspected diphtheria. 




GUIDE TO BOSTON 65 

There are now fifty stations in drug stores scattered over the 
city, where physicians can obtain outfits for use in suspected 
cases of diphtheria, tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid fever and gon- 
orrhoeal ophthalmia, and may leave s])ecimens with assurance 
of a speedy report. The laboratory is willing to carry out any 
bacteriological examinations that can properly be called public- 
health work. Visitors are always welcome. The Board of Health 
has charge of the inspection of the public schools of the city, 
employing a corps of fifty physicians, each one being assigned to 
a district containing a definite number of schools and scholars, 
and each responsible to the board for the health of the pupils 
and for the sanitary condition of the schoolhouses in his care. 

At the corner of Boylston and Hereford streets is the re- 
cently completed building of the Tennis and Bacqiiet Club. 

The Medical Baths in the Farragut Building, No. 126 Massa- 
chusetts Avenue, corner of Boylston Street, were started by a 
committee of representative medical men, in order that Boston 
might have the advantage of a scientific hydrotherapeutic es- 
tablishment. This is a thoroughly equipped plant, under com- 
petent medical supervision, where hydrotherapeutic measures 
may be carried out either according to the judgment of the 
patient's physician, or, if he so wishes, according to the judg- 
ment of the medical men in charge. 

At the corner of Boylston Street and the Fenway is the 
building of the Massachusetts Historical Society, founded in 1791. 
Besides a priceless library, the Historical Society has an inter- 
esting museum, which the genial secretary. Dr. Samuel A. 
Green, former mayor of Boston, will be glad to show to the 
members of the American Medical Association. 

Across the Fenway from the Historical Society's building is 
a memorial to John Boyle O'Reilly, the Irish poet and patriot, 
who was for many years the editorof a Boston paper, the "Pilot." 

Next to the building of the Historical Society, and facing 
on the Fenway, is the Boston Medical Library. This associa- 
tion was formed in 1875, and the first library consisted of 1,500 
volumes, housed in two rooms on Hamilton Place. A little 
later a house was purchased at No. 19 Boylston Place, and re- 




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66 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

modelled so as to give a hall for medical meetings on the first 

floor^ around the walls of 
which were the book- 
shelves. On the second 
floor was a reading-room 
and office. The library re- 
mained at No. 19 Boylston 
Place fortwenty-tw o years, 
until its building was so 
outgrown that 10^000 vol- 
umes had to be stored in 
other places. 

In 1898 the movement 
was started that resulted 
in the erection of the 
present building, which 
has been occupied since 
BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY January, 1901. Besides 

adequate stacks for the care of the books, there are several 
reading-rooms, the largest of which is Holmes Hall. This beau- 
tiful hall was named after Oliver Wendell Holmes, the li- 
brary's first president. The library building serves as a meeting- 
place for most of Boston's larger medical societies, and many 
of the smaller ones, and has for this purpose three halls and 
several rooms, including a supper-room. The largest hall seats 
about three hundred persons, and the other two about sixty. 
Among the medical societies which meet at the library men- 
tion should be made of the Boston Society for Medical Im- 
provement, incorporated in 1839- It has had much to do with 
the ui)building of medicine in Boston. A Directory for Nurses, 
which is under the charge of the Association, has its headquar- 
ters in this building. In addition to 50,000 bound volumes and 
22,000 pamphlets, the library contains a very large and valuable 
collection of medical medals (the Storer Collection), many })or- 
traits of medical men, besides autographs, prints and other 
things of medical interest. The present library is largely the 
result of the untiring energy of the late Dr. James R. Chadwick, 



GUIDE TO BOSTON 67 

who was librarian from its founding, in 1875, to the time of his 
death, in the fall of 1905. The Medical Library is the home of 
the Massachusetts Medical Society. 

The Massachusetts Medical Society was formed in 1781, with 
power to elect officers, examine and license candidates for prac- 
tice, hol4 real estate, and "continue as a body politic and cor- 
porate by the same name forever." It was reorganized largely 
through the efforts of James Jackson, in 1803. Candidates, 
either male or female, for membership in the society must be 
not less than twenty-one years of age, and of good moral char- 
acter; must satisfy the censors, by oral and written examina- 
tioii, that they have a good general English education, that 
they have some knowledge of Latin, and that they have studied 
medicine and surgery three full years, and have attended two 
full courses of lectures in separate years at an authorized medi- 
cal school recognized by the councillors of the society, and 
possess a diploma from some such school. A candidate must 
not profess to cure diseases by, nor intend to practise, spiritual- 
ism, homeopathy, allopathy, Thomsonianism, eclecticism, or 
any other irregular or exclusive system. 

There is an annual meeting and a dinner of the society in 
the month of June each year, and the district societies, of 
which there are eighteen, hold more or less frequent meetings 
during the year, and an annual meeting at least ten days be- 
fore the meeting of the parent society. 

The present membership of the society is about three thou- 
sand. The dues are five dollars a year. The proceedings of the 
society and the annual address are published each year. Most 
of the reputable regular physicians of the State are members 
of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Being a member, how- 
ever, does not give the right to practise. 

The Board of Registration in Medicine confers authority to 
practise medicine in Massachusetts. It is composed of seven 
physicians, each appointed by the Governor, and serving for a 
period of seven years. No member of the board shall belong to 
the faculty of any medical college, and no more than three 
members shall at one time be members of any one chartered 



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state medical society. Examinations are held three times a year, 

and applicants for regis- 
tration are given certifi- 
cates if they are found by 
a majority of the board to 
be twenty-one years of 
age or over, of good moral 
character, to have passed 
the examinations, which 
are wholly or in ])art in 
writing, and to have paid 
a fee of twenty dollars. 
FENWAY COURT From the windows of 

the Medical Library one looks out upon the Fens, a part of 
Boston's park system, around which it is expected many fine 
residences will be built in the not far distant future. 

Directly across the Fens from the library rises the group of 
white marble buildings of the Harvard Medical School. In 
the foreground is Fenway Court or the Lsabella Stewart Gardner 
Mmei/m of Art, which is also the Boston residence of Mrs. John I^. 
Gardner. This is built after the style of an Italian palace, and 
much of the material used in its construction was brought from 
Italy. The museum contains Mrs. Gardner's valuable collection 
of pictures, marbles and other works of art. Admission to this 
collection is to be had at stated intervals by means of tickets. 
On the right of Mrs. Gardner's residence is S'mnnoiis College, 
its founder declaring 
its pur})ose to be "to 
furnish to women in- 
struction and training 
in such branches of 
art, science, and in- 
dustry as may be ser- ^^^^HE^ ' ' ' ^ ' i lilj 
viceable in enabling 
them to acquire a live- 
hhood." The main 
building seen here is simmcns ( (.i.le(;e 






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a long structure of brick^ consisting of a central section and 
two wings. The central pavilion^ adorned by stone columns 
which rise from the second story^ is crowned by a huge cop- 
})er ventilating lantern. Although Simmons College was not 
incorporated until 1899^ it has a large and increasing number 
of students.'A dormitory for the students of the college is situ- 
ated on Brookline Avenue, not far from its junction with the 
parkway. 

The new edifice of the Church of the Disciples is to be seen 
on Peterborough Street. This church society, of which James 
Freeman Clarke was for many years the pastor, worshipped 
until recently in the building at the corner of Warren Avenue 
and West Brookline Street. 

To the left of Copley Square is Huntington Avenue. At 
No. 30 is the Laboratory of the Boston Board of Health, where 
milk and vinegar are analyzed. On the right of Huntington 
Avenue, about two blocks beyond Copley Square, is the Me- 
chanics Building. This is a large building, which covers seven 
acres of land and belongs to the Massachusetts Charitable Me- 
chanics Association. It has two very large halls, one used for 
exhibition purposes, and the other as an auditorium with a seat- 
ing capacity of eight thousand. ; 
Besides these halls the build- 
ing contains trade schools and 
a Normal School of Gymnas- 
tics. The society was founded 
in 1795, and Paul Revere was 
its first president. Its object 
was to relieve the wants of un- 
fortunate mechanics and their 
families, and to promote in- 
ventions and im])rovements in 
mechanic arts. The present building was erected in 1880-1. 

On St. Botolph Street, which runs parallel to Huntington 
Avenue to the south, is the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, on 
the corner of Garrison Street. Pharmacists must be registered 
by the State Board of Registration in Pharmacy in order to do 




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N. L. Stebbim, Photo. 

HORTICULTURAL HALL 



business in the Common- 
wealth. 

At No. 21 8 Huntington 
Avenue is the clubhouse 
of the Elysium Club. This 
club includes in its mem- 
bership most of Boston's 
prominent Hebrews. 

To the right of Hun- 
tington Avenue, just be- 
fore one readies Massachusetts Avenue, is to be seen the huge 
Christian Science Church, which is to be dedicated June 10. This 
building, which is joined to the so-called "Mother Church," has 
more the proportions of an Old World cathedral than of a 
church. It is said that its cost, together with that of a large plot 
of land, will be upwards of two million dollars. It will have a seat- 
ing capacity of five thousand. Its dome, surmounted by a cupola, 
is two hundred and twenty-four feet high, — a landmark which 
can be seen at a very considerable distance. 

Near the intersection of Huntington and Massachusetts 
avenues are several buildings which are of interest. Chickeriug 
Hall is a low, rather ornate building, used for musical purposes. 
Many small concerts are held here. 

Horticultural Hall, on the northeast corner of Huntington 
and Massachu- 
setts avenues, is 
the new building ^ 

of the Massachu- 
setts Horticultu- 
ral Society, which 
was founded in 
1829. The former 
headquarters of 
the society, on 
the site of the 
Paddock Build- 
ing, was for many 




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years one of the striking landmarks of Tremont Street. Every 
year the society has many exhibitions of fruit, plants, flowers, 
vegetables, fungi, &c. 




CHILDREN S HOSPITAL 

Across Massachusetts Avenue from Horticultural Hall is 
Symphony Hall. Here are given during the fall and winter the 
concerts of the celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra. During 
the spring members of the same orchestra give a series of popu- 
lar promenade concerts called "Pops." 

On Huntington Avenue, just beyond Symphony Hall, is the 
Children s Hospital. This institution, incorporated in 1869:, was 
for a time at No. 9 Rutland Street, and later at No. 1429 Wash- 
ington Street. The present building, of Renaissance style, was 
built in 1881. There have, however, been some additions made 
since that time. The hospital receives as ward patients children 
between two and twelve years of age. It has one hundred beds, 
divided between medical, surgical and orthopedic services. 
The out-patient department is attended by a large number of 
ambulatory orthopedic cases. Connected with the hospital is 
a shop for the manufacture of orthopedic apparatus. At Welles- 
ley the hospital has a convalescent home, which is of the great- 
est help in the treatment of its patients. In 1905 the hospital 



72 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

treated 1,534< patients in the wards. 



To this institution may 
be traced much of the in- 
terest in orthopedics, so 
prominent in Boston me- 
dicine. 






Street, just a block east of 
the Children's Hospital, is 
- the Industrial School for 
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Crippled and Deformed 

Children. This school was incorporated in 1894, "to promote 
the education and sj^ecial training of crippled and deformed 
children." Its present building, completed in 1904, will be able 
to accommodate ultimately about one hundred and fifty pupils. 
Children under fifteen are taught the usual branches as in 
primary and grammar schools, together with manual training 
adapted to these grades. Those over fifteen are taught typeset- 
ting, printing, cane-seating, basketwork and needlework. 
When proficient, they receive pay. Most of the smaller children 
are brought to and from the school in carriages, and are given 
their dinners. There is a nurse to look after dressings, adjust 
apparatus, and care for the children. 

On the corner of Gainsborough Street and Huntington Ave- 
nue is the New England Conservatory of Music, founded in 1870. 
This is the largest and most important nmsic school in the 
country. It has courses in the science and art of music in all its 
branches. By a recent arrangement with Harvard University, 
students of either institution may take certain courses at the 
other, an arrangement ad- 
vantageous to both. In 
Jordan Hall, the Concert 
Room, is the great organ, 
formerly in the old Boston 
Music Hall, in Hamilton 
Place. Jordan Hall, the 
chief auditorium in the ti its college medical school 











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Conservatory^ is entered from Gainsborough Street. 

Beyond the Conservatory, on the same side of Huntington 
Avenue, we come to the baseball grounds of the American 
League. A Httle farther along is the 

Tufts College Medical School 

By vote of the Trustees of Tufts College the Tufts College Me- 
dical School was established in Boston, August 28, 1893. The 
object of the school was to provide a "practical and thorough 
medical education for persons of both sexes upon equal terms." 
The school at first was located in a building belonging to 
the College at No. 188 Boylston Street. These quarters were 
speedily outgrown and the Chauncey Hall School building, in 
Copley Square, was leased while the building on the corner of 
Rutland Street and Shawmut Avenue was prepared for its per- 
manent location. In 1897 the school was transferred to Rutland 
Street and Shaw^mut Avenue. The quarters for the school having 
become again outgrown and the Boston Dental College having 
become an incorporate part of Tufts College, it was found neces- 
sary to provide still larger quarters for the rapidly increasing 
number of students. The present building, on the corner of 
Huntington Avenue and Bryant Street, was accordingly con- 
structed, and has been the home of the Medical and Dental 
schools since the opening of the session of 1901-2. 

The school offers a four-years' graded course in all the 
branches of the study of medicine. Its laboratory facilities are 
ample. Instruction is given by means of lectures, demonstra- 
tions, laboratory exercises, and clinics. There are twenty-four 
professors, one associate professor, six assistant professors, two 
demonstrators, one clinical lecturer, thirty instructors, seven 
assistant demonstrators and nineteen assistants. There are 
twenty student laboratory assistants. In the present session 
380 students are enrolled as follows: Fourth year, 81; third 
year, 68; second year, 99; fii'st year, 103; special students, 27; 
graduates, 2. Students of this school are admitted to the am- 
phitheatres of the Massachusetts General and City hospitals. 
Clinics are held at the Boston City Hospital, the Massachu- 



74 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

setts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Carney Hospital, 
the Cambridge Hospital, the Free Hospital for Women, the 
Woman's Charity Club Hospital, the Boston Dispensary, the 
Tremont Dispensary, the House of the Good Samaritan, 
St. Mary's Infant Asylum, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the Free 
Home for Consumptives, and numerous asylums and other in- 
stitutions. 

Beyond the Fens one comes, on the right, to Longwood Ave- 
nue, on which are the new buildings of the 

Harvard Medical School 

The Harvard Medical School was the third medical school to 
be founded in the United States, being antedated by the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania Medical School, founded in 1765, and 
the short-lived New York Medical School, founded in 1768. 

The school may be said to owe its origin to the bequest of 
Dr. Ezekiel Hersey to Harvard College in the year 1770 of the 
sum of <£ 1,000, to be used "for a Professorship of Anatomy, 
and for that use only." Dr. Hersey was a plain country doctor, 
w ith a practice in Hingham and the surrounding towns. He had 
graduated from Harvard and had studied medicine in Boston 
under a preceptor, as the custom of those days was. He felt 
the need of a medical school, and resolved to do what he 
could toward establishing one. 

The Revolution delayed the beginning of the school, but 
brought to it, when once it was started, the results of the ex- 
perience gained in the military hospitals, and in the contact 
with the medical men trained in the best schools of the mother 
country. 

Tlie history of the school may be divided, conveniently, into 
four periods, for with every change of location came important 
alterations in the personnel of the teaching force, in policies, 
and in the clinical opportunities afforded the students. 

First(l782-18l6), its life in Cambridge, and in its temporary 
quarters on old Marlborough Street, in Boston. 

Second (1816-1847), the time that it occu])ied the Massa- 
chusetts Medical College building on Masou Street. 



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75 



Third (1847-1883), its occupancy of the building on North 
Grove Street. 

Fourth (1883-1906), the twenty-three years during which 
its home has been on Boijlston Street. 

A fifth and a far greater period is now at hand, — the be- 
ginning of a medical university, surpassing in equipment and 
beauty any in the world. It remains for the future to show what 
this is to mean to the cause of medical education. 

Dr. John Warren, surgeon in the Continental Army and an 
active physician, had given a successful series of lectures on 
Anatomy in Boston in 1780 and 1781, and was invited to re- 
peat them in Cambridge. This he did, and at the request of 
the College drew up articles to govern the Department of 
Medicine to be formed in connection with Harvard College. He 
was chosen to the chair of Anatomy and Surgery in 1782, and 
a month later Benjamin Water- 
house, a Boston practitioner, 
formerly of Newport, was 
elected Professor of the Theory 
and Practice of Physic. The 
following year Aaron Dexter, a 
Boston apothecary, was made 
Professor of Materia Medica. 
These three composed the 
teaching force during the early 
yearsof the school. Dr. Holmes 
thus describes Dr. Water- 
house as he appeared during 
his later life in Cambridge: ^'^A 
brisk, dapper old gentleman, 
with hair tied in a ribbon behind, and, I think, powdered, 
marching smartly about with his gold-headed cane, with a 
look of questioning sagacity and an utterance of oracular gra- 
vity. The good people of Cambridge listened to his learned 
talk when they were well, and sent for one of the other two 
doctors when they were sick." 

The instruction consisted at first mainly of lectures, which 




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76 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

were given in Harvard Hall and Holden Chapel in the College 
grounds at Cambridge. Dissecting material was hard to pro- 
cure. The first degrees were conferred in 1788 and were those 
of Bachelors of Medicine, the first Doctors of Medicine being 
graduated in 1811. 

Ward Nicholas Boylston laid the foundation of the Boylston 
Medical Library by giving to the school in 1800 about eleven 
hundred volumesof selected authors, — a great help to the strug- 
gling school. Attempts to secure clinical advantages in Cam- 
bridge proving fruitless, arrangements were made, in 1810, for a 
course of clinical lectures at the almshouse on Leverett Street, 
in Boston, and a Professor of Clinical Medicine was appointed 
in the person of James Jackson. Two years later he succeeded 
Dr. Waterhouse as Professor of Theory and Practice, and held 
both positions for several years. The professors were paid, for 
the most part, by the fees received from their pupils. 

The home of the school in Boston was at first in rooms over 
White's apothecary shop, on the site of the clothing store of 
Macullar, Parker Com})any, at what is now No. 400 Washington 
Street, between School and Summer streets. 

The number of medical students in 1814 was one hundred 
and twenty, of which fifty w ere at the school in Boston and 
seventy in Cambridge. Communication between Boston and 
Cambridge was by ferry to Charlestown and a long journey over 
the road. Many were the subterfuges resorted to in order to 
get material for dissection. Popular jn-ejudice was strong 
against anatomical study, and ^'body snatching" alone pro- 
duced practical results. The good physician of those days had 
to possess many sorts of fortitude, — he must brave the terrors 
of the law to round out his education, and keep a steady hand 
while operating on conscious and suffering humanity. 

The anatomical dissections were made in the rooms over 
White's aj)othecary shop, and the clinical f;icilities were fur- 
nished by the almshouse, the Marine Hospital (1803) at Charles- 
town, the Boston Dispensary (1801), and the State Prison at 
Charlestown. For many years the lectures in chemistry were 
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Dr. John Warren died in 1815, and was succeeded in the 
chair of Anatomy and Surgery by his son, John ColHns War- 
ren. In this same year Jacob Bigelow was Lecturer in Materia 
Medica and Botany, and Walter Channing in Midwifery, so 
that when the school moved into its new building on Mason 
Street, — the Massachusetts Medical College, as it was called in 
18 16, — the teaching force had materially changed, and con- 
sisted of J. C. Warren in Anatomy and Surgery ; James Jackson, in 
Theory and Practice; Jacob Bigelow in Materia Medica; Walter 
Channing in Midwifery, and John Gorham, who had succeeded 
Dexter, in Chemistry. Dr. Gorham was one of the founders 
of the New England Medical Journal (1812), the forerunner of 
the Boston Medical and SiirgicalJournal (1S2S). Dr. J. C. Warren 
was Professor of 
Anatomy and 
Surgery dur- 
ing the years 
the school re- 
mained on Ma- 
son St. He was 
instrumental in 
getting the le- 
gislative grant 
with which the 
Mason Street 

building was Massachusetts Medical College, Mason Street, Boston, 

erected, and he '^'5- 

helped raise the sum of $150,000 which was used to build the 
Massachusetts General Hospital. He was selected as visiting 
surgeon to the hospital when it was opened in 1821, and per- 
formed there the first operation under ether anaesthesia, in Oc- 
tober, 1846. He was the third president of the American Medi- 
cal Association. 

The first regular medical faculty was organized November 1, 
18 16, and consisted of Drs. Jackson, Warren, Gorham, Bigelow 
and Channing. A library and a museum were established in the 
new school. The number of students in 1818 was fifty-eight, and 




78 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

the course of lectures was three months. 

When the Massachusetts General Hospital was completed^ 
it was used to provide clinical material for the students. John 
Ware succeeded James Jackson as Hersey Professor of the 
Theory and Practice of Physic in 1836^ and John White Web- 
ster succeeded Dr. Gorham in 1827. 

In 1831 the Medical School was organized as a distinct de- 
partment^ with its own dean^ and with complete local self-gov- 
ernment^ maintaining its own receipts and expenditures^ and 
it remained in this anomalous condition until President Eliot 
took charge of the University in 1870. Then a new regime 
began, and dating from this time the president was instru- 
mental in developing the school as an integral part of the 
University. 

In 1846 George Parkman presented the growing school with 
a lot of land on North Grove Street, close to the Massachu- 
setts General Hospital, and a new building was erected thereon. 
The Parkman Professorship of Anatomy and Physiology was 
created by the President and Fellows of Harvard College in 
1847, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was elected to fill this 
office. At the same time Dr. J. B. S. Jackson was created Pro- 
fessor of Pathological Anatomy. This was the year of the or- 
ganization of the American Medical Association. 

In 1849 Dr. Henry J. Bigelow succeeded Dr. Hay^ard, who 
had followed Dr. W^arren in the chair of Surgery. 

The Warren museum of anatomical preparations, collected 
by Dr. Jolni C. Warren abroad and in this country, was given 
to tlie school on the completion of the new building, and Mas 
the basis of the present Warren Anatomical Museum, containing 
about nine thousand specimens, illustrating both normal and 
pathological anatomy and materia medica. 

At this time the different clinical facilities were furnished by 
the Massachusetts (u'ueral Ilosjntal, close at hand ; by the Mas- 
sachusetts Charitahle Kije and Ear Injirmarii (1824), which moved 
into a new building on Charles Street in 1850; by the Perkins 
Institution for the Blind (182.9) in South Boston, and by the Bos- 
ton f.i/ing-in JIos})ital{\ 832) on McLean Street. It was at this hos- 



GUIDE TO BOSTON 79 

pital that Dr. O. W. Holmes made the study of puerperal sep- 
ticaemia, on which he founded his famous thesis which revolu- 
tionized the practice of obstetrics. Clinical teaching in mental 
diseases was conducted at the Asylum for the Insane at Danvers 
and at the Boston Insane Hospital. 

The clinical advantages of the school were increased by the 
founding of the House of the Good Samaritan in I860, and by 
the building of the Boston City Hospital in 1864-. The Children s 
Hospital, founded in I869, opened its doors to the students of 
the school in 1882, and the Free Hospital for Women (1875) 
at about this time. In later years the students have had clini- 
cal facilities afforded them at the Infants Hospital, the Long 
Island Hospital for chronic diseases in Boston Harbor, and the 
Carney Hospital. At the present time the clinical facilities are 
probably greater than in any medical school in the country. 
It is hoped that the members of the American Medical Associ- 
ation will inspect the many hospitals of the city. The intro- 
duction of the use of ether anaesthesia in surgical practice in 
1846 (see Massachusetts General Hospital^ produced a revo- 
lution in surgical methods, and inaugurated a new era in 
medicine. 

In 1849 occurred the notorious Parkman murder in the 
Medical School building. George Parkman, the donor of the 
land on which the school was built, went to the school one 
day in November to collect a debt from Dr. John W. Webster, 
the Professor of Chemistry. He was seen to enter the building 
at 1.45 p.m., and was never seen again alive. No trace of him 
was found until a week later, when a pelvis, a right thigh and 
a left leg were found in a privy connected with Webster's pri- 
vate laboratory. In the laboratory furnace were found many 
bones, and the block of mineral teeth and the gold filling 
which served to identify the remains as those of Parkman. 
Webster was arrested, and finally confessed that Parkman had 
taunted him on the nonpayment of his debt, that he had killed 
him in a fit of anger by hitting him on the head with a stick 
of wood, and then disposed of the body to hide his guilt. The 
trial made a profound sensation in Boston, because of the high 



80 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

social and professional standing of both parties. Webster was 
hanged August 'AO, 1850. 

Among the eminent men connected with the school while 
it was on North Grove Street were G. C. Shattuck^ Professor 
of Clinical Medicine, and also of Theory and Practice; Jacob 
Bigelow, Professor of Materia Medica; Jeffries Wyman, Her- 
sey Professor of Anatomy; David Humphreys Storer, Professor 
of Obstetrics ; Henry J. Bigelow, Professor of Surgery; Charles 
W. p],liot, later president of the college. Lecturer in Chemistry ; 
Morrill Wyman, Professor of Theory and Practice; Henry I. 
Bowditch, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, and Calvin 
Ellis, Professor of Clinical Medicine. Dr. Oliver Wendell 
Holmes gave his last lecture in Anatomy in the North Grove 
Street building in 1882. 

As before, whenever the school had progressed to the j)oint 
where larger and better focilities were needed, the younger 
and more progressive men came to the fore, the older men re- 
tired, and there were changes in the teaching force. The need 
of a school building located in a more respectable part of the 
city was felt as early as 1874-, the neighborhood of North Grove 
Street having deteriorated very markedly. Dr. Holmes ima- 
gined a graduate of a well-ordered medical institution in Euro])e 
exclaiming on seeing the school, "O star-eyed Science! hast 
thou wandered there!" 

A public meeting was held in 1874, and a committee ap- 
pointed to raise funds. It was not until the fall of 188o, one 
hundred years after the founding of the school, that the Har- 
vard Medieal School moved into its new building on Boylston 
Street. The building cost, with tlie land, $.'>21,41.), and was 
thought at tlie time to be admirably suited to the needs of the 
institution for many years to come. 

A four-years' course of study was made optional in 1879 ^^, 
before moving to Boylston Street. In 1892 it was made obliga- 
tory, with most beneficial results, the number of students not 
falling off to any appreciable extent. In 1893 the teaching staff 
consisted of eighty-six men, exclusive of those connected with 
the Summer School. The opening of the Sears Pathological 



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Lahoratori) at the school^ and the pathological laboratories at 
the Massachusetts General and City hospitals^ greatly enlarged 
the facilities for instruction. The Graduate School was developed, 
and opportunities offered for men to become investigators or 
specialists of the highest type. A degree in Arts or Science 




HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, 1883-1906 

was required for admission to the school after 1902, Harvard 
being the pioneer in this respect, as she was the second medi- 
cal school in the country to require a four-years' course of study. 
In 1904-5, of the 307 students in the school, 267, or 87percent., 
were holders of the preliminary degree of A.B or S.B. 

Beginning with the year 1899-1900 a new arrangement of 
the subjects taught in the first two years was adopted. During 
the first half of the first year the students devote their time 
solely to Anatomy and Histology, and during the second half 
of the first year to Physiology and Physiological and Pathologi- 
cal Chemistry. They devote the first half of the second year to 
Pathology and Bacteriology, and the remainder of the second 
year to a variety of subjects which more particularly prepare 
the student for the clinical work of the third and fourth years. 

Experience has shown that this logical arrangement of the 



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subjects of the first two years enables a student to concentrate 
his energies to a much greater advantage than he can when 
his attention is divided among several subjects. Each corre- 
lated group presents sufficient variety to avoid monotony. An- 
other advantage of this method is that it greatly increases the 
amount of time which can be devoted to each subject. 

In 1902 certain other changes in the curriculum were adopted^ 
to take effect with the class entering in the autumn of that 
year. The new course of study is so arranged that the first 
three years are devoted to prescribed work, and the fourth 
year entirely to elective courses. A minimum of one thou- 
sand hours' work will be required of each fourth-year stu- 
dent; and courses will be offered adapted to the student who 
wishes to fit himself to be a general practitioner, and also suita- 
ble courses for those who intend to become specialists or teach- 
ers in any department of medicine. The new elective curricu- 
lum of the fourth year began in the autumn of 1905. 

When the school moved to Boylston Street, it separated it- 
self from a near-by hospital, and since this time the clinical 
facilities, although most ample, have been spread about in 
many hospitals at a considerable distance from the school 
building. All this is to be changed at the Longwood Avenue 
location, and the great need of medical education is to be met 
by a conjunction of laboratories with clinical advantages. The 
present faculty of medicine consists of thirty-four members, and 
in addition there are one hundred and eight instructors, lectur- 
ers, and assistants. The graduate department provides 133 dif- 
ferent courses, and last summer there were given 123 courses 
in the Summer School to 173 students. There are at present in 
the school 333 students, divided as follows : courses for gradu- 
ates, 61 ; fourth class, 66; third class, 55; second class, 72; first 
class, 79- 

The New School on Longwood Avenue 

The scheme for the expansion and development of the medi- 
cal school was conceived several years ago, and owes its suc- 
cess in a large measure to the untiring efforts of Henry P. 



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Bowditch and J. Collins Warren, who educated the members 
of the medical profession to demand, and the public to pro- 
vide, the means for the accomplishment of this object, so 
fraught with promise to the cause of medical education. 

In 1900 a Committee of the Faculty of the Medical School 
secured a parcel of land on Longwood Avenue, on the outskirts 
of Boston, near the Brookline line, as the site for the new medi- 
cal school. The land was held in trust by twenty public-spirited 
citizens of Boston and vicinity, who subscribed $565,000 for 
the purpose. 

Provisional plans for five buildings were made by Shepley, 
Rutan and Coolidge, architects, and in March, 1901, Henry P. 
Bowditch and J. Collins Warren submitted the plans to 
J. Pierpont Morgan. He agreed to erect the central administra- 
tion pavilion and two others, in memory of his father, Junius 
Spencer Morgan. Through W. B. Coley, of New York, an alum- 
nus of the school, John D. Rockefeller was interested in the 
project. He sent an expert to make a thorough inquiry of the 
financial situation and the prospects for the future. As a result 
of a most exhaustive report, it appeared that it would require 
|4,950,000 to buy land for the medical school and erect the 
five proposed buildings, and provide a sufficient endowment, 
and that of this sum the Corporation of Harvard University 
had 13,185,000, including |l,135,000 pledged by J. P. Morgan. 
Mr. Rockefeller agreed to give $1,000,000, applicable to build- 
ing or to endowment, provided that the balance of $765,000 
was procured from other sources before Commencement Day 
in 1902. By April 1, 1902, Drs. Warren and Bowditch had ga- 
thered subscriptions from sixty-nine different donors, to the 
amount of $821,725, and the success of the undertaking was 
assured. The largest individual subscription, obtained through 
W. B. Coley, was that of $250,000, by Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, 
of New York, to be devoted to the Pathological and Bacterio- 
logical Laboratory. 

Arrangements were made with several hospitals whereby a 
portion of the land not needed for the medical school should 
be reserved for the erection of hospitals, to be managed in 



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conjunction with the school. 

Further bequests have been received by the Corporation 
since the guarantee fund was made up, and still others will be 
welcome. One hospital, the House of the Good Samaritan, is 
already erected, and in active operation at the new location, 
and it is planned to have in the near future ample clinical fa- 
cilities close at hand to the school, making it a medical uni- 
versity and the greatest medical centre in the world. 



The present House of the Good Samaritan, on Binney Street, 
off Long wood Avenue, is the outcome of a work started by Miss 
Annie Smith Robbins in I860. She at that time opened the 
house at the corner of McLean and Chambers streets, for the 
care of women suffering from chronic diseases. The house had 
a capacity of twelve patients. Later an orthopedic department 
was added. The work was carried on under the direction of the 
founder, who lived in the house until the time of her death, 
in 1 899. After the death of Miss Robbins, the board of trustees, 
her relatives and friends raised the money for the present model 
hospital, which was first occupied in July, 1905. 

The present building has forty beds, twelve of which are 

orthopedic, the 
rest medical. The 
medical side di- 
vides its beds 
about equally be- 
tween patients 
with phthisis and 
t hose suffering 
with other chro- 
nic diseases. The 
institution is the first example in this community of a hospital 
for the treatment of chronic diseases, it being in every respect 
a hospital and not a home. 

The present building, besides having wards, operating rooms, 
laboratory and administration offices that illustrate the most 
modern ideas in hospital construction, has a sun parlor and 




?^g' 

Photo, by Dr. M. D. Miller 

HOUSE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN 



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balconies on each floor. The beds can be wheeled from the 
wards to these balconies^ and the patients spend a good deal of 
the day here. Such patients as it is desirable to have do so sleep 
on the balconies. 

In the basement of the building is located the out-patient 
department^ also a hydrotherapeutic room. The out-patient de- 
partment has recently taken up the care of tuberculosis pa- 
tients, who come to the hospital each morning and spend the 
day there, undergoing the open-air treatment. These patients 
are given dinners, besides lunches on their arrival and depar- 
ture. A nurse visits them in their homes, and advises and assists 
them as to the best manner of applying the principles of the 
open-air treatment during the time they are at home. 



THE WEST END 

THE so-called West End of Boston is a curious and 
interesting composite of slums, shabby-genteel, and 
lingering aristocracy. In places it retains more than 
any other part the genuine old Boston atmosphere. To the mem- 
bers of the American Medical Association it is of especial in- 
terest, containing, as it does, the Massachusetts General Hospital, 
the Bostoti Lying-in Hospital, the Infants' Hospital, \\\e Massachu- 
setts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, St. Margaret's Hospital, 
the Channing Home and the Vincent Memorial Hospital. 

The West End is bounded roughly on the north by Lever- 
ett Street, on the south by Beacon Street and the Common, 
on the west by Charles Street and the Charles River, and on 
the east by Somerset Street and Bowdoin Square. 

Starting at the archway of the State House over Mt. Vernon 
Street one finds himself at the corner of Hancock Street, on 
which are situated many of Boston's once fashionable resi- 
dences. Walking westward along Mt. Vernon Street, one comes 
to Joy Street. Descending on the right we come to Cambridge 
Street, and crossing it continue straight on through Chambers 
Street. On the left, at No. 44, in two inconspicuous houses, is 
the Vincent Memorial Hospital. This institution was incorporated 
in 1890, in memory of Mrs. J. R. Vincent, an actress and 
member of the old Boston Museum Stock Company. The 
physicians of the Trinity Dispensary, connected with St. An- 
drew's Church, at No. 38 Chambers Street, seeing that the use- 
fulness of their dispensary could be increased if they had some 
hospital beds at their disposal, made a ])lea for such a gift. The 
money was raised by private and public subscription, and the 
present buildings purchased. W^omen patients only are treated, 
and the hospital staff consists entirely of women. 

One now continues along Chambers Street and comes to 
McLean Street, on the left. At this corner stands the build- 
ing used until recently as the House of the Good Samaritan, 
at present established in a fine new building in an attractive 



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87 



part of the city. The visitor may diverge from the route by turn- 
ing down Green Street, on the right, to Bowdoin Square. Here 
stands the Revere 



House, one of 
ton's old-time 
teh-ies which 
maintains an air 



Bos- 

hos- 

still 

of 




BOSTON LYING-IN HOSPITAL 



respectabihty. It has 
had the distinction 
of entertaining Presi- 
dent Fillmore, Jenny 
Lind, the singer, the 
Prince of Wales, and 
the Grand Duke Al- 
exis of Russia. A 
newly constructed 
"Grotto" will appeal 
to the tired sight- 
seer. 

Returning to Mc- 
Lean Street, on the 
left stands the Boston Lying-in Hospital. This was organized 
in 1832 for the care of poor and deserving women during 
confinement. After several changes in location and mode of 
administration, the trustees established the institution in its 
present quarters. In 1 890 the hospital was enlarged to the pro- 
portions in which we find it by the purchase of adjoining 
houses, and about sixty patients can now be accommodated. In 
1881 an out-patient department was established with a branch 
in the South P],nd, now at No. 174 Harrison Avenue, at the foot 
of Bennet Street. In this department women are confined at 
their homes. Students from the third and fourth year classes 
at the Harvard Medical School do this work, under experienced 
supervision, and in this way get the training in obstetrics re- 
(juired for their degree. In 1889 the hospital opened a training 
school for nurses. The hospital treats annually about seven hun- 
dred in-patients and two thousand out-patients. 



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A few doors beyond, at No. 30, is the Channing Home. This 
was established in May, 1857, by Miss Harriet Ryan, the late 
Mrs. John Albee, the present building being opened May 1, 
1870. This is not a hospital in the ordinary sense of the word, 
but a home for incurables. The institution has accommodations 
for fourteen inmates, women and girls only being admitted. 

Leaving the Channing Home and walking on to Blossom 
Street, one finds himself at the main entrance of the Massa- 
chusetts General Hospital. Before inspecting this hospital, the 
visitor may care to stop for a moment at the Infants' Hos- 
pital, of which the full name is the Thomas Morgan Rotch, Jr., 
Memorial Hospital Jbr Infants. This was incorporated in 1881, 
and receives as in-patients children up to two years of age 
only. In the out-patient department, however, children up to 
twelve years of age are treated. Contagious diseases, includ- 
ing syphilis, are not admitted. There are twenty-four beds, of 
which six are surgical and eighteen medical. In connection 
with the hospital there is a post-graduate training school for 
nurses. Courses of instruction to nursemaids are given here. 
In 1905, 206 cases were admitted to the medical ward, and 65 
to the surgical ward, — a total of 271 . In the out-patient depart- 
ment a total of 2,711 new cases were treated during 1905. 
After July 1 the hospital closes, and its work is taken up dur- 
ing the summer months by the Boston Floating Hospital (see 
page 110). Returning now to the 

Massachusetts General Hospital 
the visitor will want to spend some time in this famous institu- 
tion. With the exception of the Pennsylvania Hospital, it is the 
oldest hospital in the country. It undoubtedly owes its exist- 
ence to Dr. J. C. Warren, the first Professor of Anatomy and 
Surgery at the Harvard Medical School, and to Dr. James 
Jackson, whose life has just been written in a most charming 
manner by his grandson. Dr. James Jackson Putnam. Drs. 
Warren and Jackson together succeeded in raising the re- 
quisite funds for the enterj)rise, and the hos})ital was incor- 
porated February 25, 1811, and opened to patients Septem- 



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89 



ber 3, 1821. During the first year of its existence it received 
substantial aid from the State, but with this exception it has 
been wholly supported by voluntary contributions from the 
citizens of Boston and its neighborhood. 

During the first three weeks of its existence only one pa- 
tient is said to have applied for treatment, and at the end of 
the first year there were but twelve patients in the wards. It 
grew rapidly in size, however, and now can accommodate 
about three hundred patients. In 1905 the daily number of 
patients averaged 277, and about 3,200 operations were per- 
formed; 1,997 medical cases and 3,099 surgical cases were 
treated. In the out-patient department 21,874 new cases were 




MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, 1831 

treated in 1905, this number including medical, surgical, or- 
thopedic, genito-urinary, skin, nervous, nose and throat, and 
children's diseases. Patients suffering from medical or surgical 
diseases are received from any part of the United States or 
the Provinces. Chronic and incurable cases are, as a rule, re- 
fused admission, and no contagious or confinement cases are 
admitted. There are three surgical and two medical services. 
The original building, made of Chelmsford granite, was de- 



90 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

signed by Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the new State 
House. When completed^ in 1821, it was considered the finest 
edifice in New England. In 1846 two new wings were added. 

The year of 1846 is especially notable from the fact that 
on October l6 th.^ Jir.st piihlic demonstration of ether as a general 
anaesthetic was given by Dr. W. T. G. Morton in the little 
amphitheatre under the dome. 

The history of ether is most interesting. Previous to 1 846 it 
was regarded rather as a chemical curiosity, although for many 
years it had been known that ether, when inhaled, produced 
insensibility, and many are the amusing experiences and in- 
teresting experiments recounted; but to Dr. W. T. G. Mor- 
ton, a prominent Boston dentist, its introduction to the world 
as a certain and safe anaesthetic is undoubtedly due. No words 
can express the value to mankind of this discovery. The story 
of ether is, briefly, as follows : * 

After innumerable experiments and disheartening failures. 
Dr. Morton became convinced that proper publicity for the 
new discovery could be attained only through the agency of 
some leading surgeon, by the performance of an impressive 
operation in the presence of numerous spectators. The Massa- 
chusetts General Hospital, the sole hospital in Boston at that 
time, naturally suggested itself as a desirable place for such 
an exhibition. Accordingly, Dr. Morton called upon Dr. John 
C. Warren, one of the surgeons of the hospital, and told him 
that he had discovered something which would prevent pain 
during a surgical operation. He did not say what it was, but 
begged for an oj)portunity to employ it in some case in which 
Dr. Warren might be the operator. Dr. Warren, having had a 
general acquaintance with Dr. Morton for a year or two before 
this time, listened to this communication as to one of im])or- 
tance and magnitude, and promised, although at the moment 
unable to comply with the request, to do so on the first occa- 
sion which offered. The hospital at this time was in a flourish- 
ing condition, and included in its staff many noted physicians. 

* For thin history of the introduction of ether the icriter has made extensive 
use of Dr. R. M. Hodges' s ''The Introduction of Sulphuric Ether.'' 



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The medical staff consisted of Jacob Bigelow, Enoch Hale, 
John B. S. Jackson, Henry I. Bowditch, John D. Fisher and 
OHver Wendell Holmes. The surgical staff was made up of 
John C. Warren, George Hayward, Solomon D. Townsend, 
Henry J. Bigelow, J. Mason Warren and Samuel Parkman. 
It is worthy of note that from 1871 until February 1, 1905, 
the name of Warren — father, son and grandson — has been 
enrolled on the surgical staff of the Massachusetts General 
Hospital. The retirement of the present Dr. J. Collins Warren 
on the latter date removes for the first time this illustrious 
name from the roll. 

On the morning of October 13, 184-6, a young man named 
Gilbert Abbott, twenty years old, was brought into the oper- 
ating theatre of the hospital to undergo an operation for the 
removal of a congenital, but superficial, vascular tumor, just 
below the jaw on the left side of the neck. Arrangements for 
its performance having been completed, Dr. J. C. Warren was 
about to begin when he paused, and said: "I now recollect 
that I promised Dr. Morton to give him the earliest oppor- 
tunity of trying a mode for preventing pain in surgical opera- 
tions ; and if the patient consents, I shall defer this operation 
to another day, and invite Dr. Morton to administer his pre- 
paration." The patient naturally approved of this proposal. The 
operation was postponed to the following Friday, October l6. 
At the hospital on this Friday morning Dr. Warren having 
waited ten or fifteen minutes turned to those present and 
said: "As Dr. Morton has not yet arrived, I presume he is 
otherwise engaged" — apparently conveying the idea that 
Morton did not intend to appear. This remark created a laugh. 
Dr. Warren then sat down by his patient. Just as he raised 
his knife to begin. Dr. Morton entered with his inhaler, an 
apparatus on which he had spent no end of labor and ingenu- 
ity. Having completed his preparations, Morton proceeded to 
administer his compound. "Are you afraid.^" he said to the 
patient. "No," replied the young man, "I feel confident, and 
will do precisely as you tell me." The spectators (see the cut on 
the opposite page, which giA^es a good view of the persons pre- 



92 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

sent^ and of the little amphitheatre as it was on that day) looked 
on incredulously, especially as the patient at first became ex- 
hilarated, but suddenly, when his unconsciousness was evi- 
dent, there was a start of surprise. Dr. Morton then calmly 
informed Dr. Warren that his patient was ready. As the opera- 
tion progressed, the utmost silence prevailed. Every eye was 
fixed upon the novel scene in eager expectancy and amaze- 
ment. During the later part of the operation, the patient was 
sufficiently conscious "to move his limbs and to utter extraor- 
dinary expressions, and these movements seemed to indicate 
the existence of pain, but after he had recovered his faculties 
he said he had experienced none, but only a sensation like that 
of scraping the part with a blunt instrument." This somewhat 
imperfect insensibility arose from the fact that as the opera- 
tion had taken longer than was anticipated, Morton had several 
times removed the inhaler from the young man's mouth. While 
the patient was still lying on the table. Dr. Warren turned to 
the audience and said slowly and emphatically, '^'Gentlemen, 
this is no humbug." He then remarked that a satisfactory test 
of the preparation could be made only by repeated trials, and 
ended by asking Dr. Morton to come to the hospital and ad- 
minister it again on the following day. This first operation oc- 
cupied about five minutes. It was certainly incomplete as a 
demonstration, — there were manifest signs of consciousness 
during the dissection, which was not, perhaps, of the most 
painful description. A powerful drug, or even the imagination, 
as it was said, might have been an adequate agency in produ- 
cing the phenomena observed. Dr. J. C. Warren himself r,aid it 
should be placed in the class of cases of imperfect etherization. 
The impression made upon the observers was, nevertheless, 
profound enough for Dr. Henry J. Bigelow to say to a physi- 
cian whom he met as he left the hospital, "I have seen some- 
thing to-day which will go around the world." He lived to see 
this remark prove true. 

The discretion and moral courage which were instrumental 
in permitting tlie introduction of a disguised and only partially 
known anodyne into the Massachusetts General Hospital 



GUIDE TO BOSTON 93 

should not be forgotten or passed by without mention. Even 
those who looked with no friendly eye on the attitude of Bos- 
ton in this matter candidly asserted that to the surgeons of 
this hospital the world owes the immediate adoption of the 
anaesthesia of surgery. 

Although all responsibility for the act rested absolutely with 
the surgeons, the trustees of that institution, — a board of 
twelve gentlemen of the highest consideration in this commu- 
nity, — impressed by the beneficent and humane aspects of the 
situation, cooperated in every way to promote its acceptance. 
They awarded the right of discovery to Dr. Morton, and they 
befriended him personally, although he was a stranger to all of 
them. None of them were physicians or engaged in similar pur- 
suits, but they took no narrow-minded or superficial view of 
the all-absorbing event. The active part they bore, under the 
lead of Mr. Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, in the discussions 
and inquiries of the time, contributed greatly to the favorable 
reception of anaesthesia, and to its prompt adoption in this 
community and elsewhere. 

As one enters the hospital grounds he sees to the left a small 
brick building, used until recently as an admitting room to the 
old out-patient department, but within the last two or three 
years fitted up for the use of the two assistant resident physi- 
cians. The brick house on the right, built in 1891, is the home 
of the resident physician, Dr. Herbert B. Howard. 

Entering the hospital, one sees to the left the administra- 
tive offices, and to the right a small room where the telephones 
are operated. This room was in early days used as a dispensary 
for out-patients, and is the birthplace of the present enormous 
out-patient department. Continuing along the corridor, one 
ascends the stairs to the TreadiveU Library, a quiet, sunny room, 
with three alcoves and adorned with the portraits and busts of 
the former trustees and physicians of the hospital. The nucleus 
of this library, a collection of five thousand volumes, many of 
them large and expensive works not generally found elsewhere, 
w^as given by Dr. Tread well, of Salem. The library contains now 
over six thousand volumes and over three thousand pamphlets. 



94 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

and subscribes to seventy of the current medical journals. The 
assistant librarian, Mrs, Myers, will gladly explain to visitors the 
various excellent card catalogues of cases, and will give any in- 
formation as to details of the administration of a hospital li- 
brary. On either side of the library, on this floor and on that 
above, open the old wards ; those in the east wing being medi- 
cal, those in the west wing surgical. 

After leaving the library, one should ascend two more flights 
of stairs, until he reaches the little amphitheatre under the 
dome. The construction and isolation of this room was planned, 
so it is said, to prcT cnt, as far as possible, the cries of those 
undergoing operations in pre-anaesthesia days from being 
heard by other patients. The room is much the same as it was 
on the day which made it famous, and is now used for clinical 
lectures to nurses and medical students. In the two glass cases 
are preserved the sponges and apparatus first used in giving 
ether, together with countless surgical instruments of antique 
design used by the early surgeons of the hospital. Over these 
cases hangs a fine oil painting of Dr. John C. Warren, who per- 
formed the first operation in which ether was used. 

Descending now to the ground floor, and continuing along 
the tortuous corridor, one soon comes to a large tiled hallway, 
through which one passes to the newer portions of the hos- 
pital. Turning sharply to the right, one leaves the building, 
crosses the driveway and enters the pathological laboratory. 
The latter is large and sunny, and complete in all its details. 
Its director. Dr. James H. Wright, or the assistant pathologist. 
Dr. Oscar Richardson, will show to visiting physicians the dif- 
ferent rooms of the pathological laboratory, the animal room, 
the chemical laboratory, the morgue and the autopsy room. 
The laboratories were established in 1896, while the morgue 
and autopsy rooms — together known as "The Allen Street 
House" — date from 1875. 

In this same building is the engine and dynamo room, from 
which all the heating and lighting is furnislied, not only to the 
hospital, but also to the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear 
Infirmary. 



GUIDE TO BOSTON 95 

Leaving the laboratory building and returning to the tiled 
hallway, the visitor, if he desires, may inspect the so-called 
Service Building, the doors of which open on the right. Herein 
are contained the storerooms for hospital provisions and supplies 
of all sorts; the apothecary department and X-ray room; the 
house officers', nurses', orderlies' and servants' dining-rooms, 
and the kitchens and sleeping quarters for the maids. Miss 
Clark, the matron, is prepared to conduct visitors through this 
building. 

One now should go down the corridor to the 7iew surgical 
amphitheatre, opened in I9OI. To the right as one enters, one 
sees the Lahoratori/ of Surgical Pathology, and opposite, two 
rooms used by the house officers and nurses, respectively, in 
preparing themselves for operations. Beyond these are four 
smaller rooms, three being the etherizing rooms, one for each 
surgical service, and one being a dark room for cystoscopy and 
the like. Beyond these there opens a wide marble corridor, out 
of which opens the large main amphitheatre containing a fine 
bronze bust of the late Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, the hospital's 
deity. Dr. Bigelow's name is familiar to the profession through- 
out the world for his development of the art of litholapaxy and 
of the instruments for its performance, for his anatomical stud- 
ies of the hip joint, and for his method of reduction by mani- 
pulation of dislocations of the hip. From this corridor open also 
the surgeons' consulting and dressing rooms, the separate oper- 
ating rooms of the three surgical services and another larger 
room for septic cases, and an instrument and sterilizing room. 
On Saturdays the large amphitheatre is open to the public, 
and all operating is done there. On other days operations are 
performed and may be witnessed in the small operating rooms. 
After leaving the Surgical Building, the visitor may care to 
continue along the corridor to see the different surgical wards, 
six in all, built mostly in the '70's. 

Ward E contains a fine little operating room, where only clean 
abdominal cases are done. Back of this ward may be seen the 
Thai/cr Building, where the nurses, over a hundred in all, are 
quartered. The Trai?ii?ig School for Nurses has existed since 1 873, 



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and offers a three-years' course, embracing practical instruc- 
tion in general, medical and surgical work. 

We will now return to the large hallway which we first en- 
tered, and thence go down the incline to the Accident Ward, 
comprising a series of rooms, each for special cases, and well 
equipped for its work. The stairway near by leads to hallowed 
precincts, namely, the house officers' "flat." 

Just beyond the stairs on the left is the entrance to the 
Zmider Eoort?. This occupies the former old Bigelow operating 
theatre, opened in 1868. The Zander apparatus for medico- 




ZANDER ROOM 
IN THE MASSACHUSETTS GENEKAI, HOSPITAL 

mechanical therapeutics was imported from Sweden, and the 
room was opened to patients in July, 1904. It is the only one 
of its kind in the city, and one of the few in this country. A 
thorough inspection of its details and possibilities will be 
found distinctly worth while. Dr. Max Bohm, the director, will 
explain the apparatus to visitors. 

Next to the Zander Room is the Gni/ JVai'd, occupying what 
was formerly the out-patient de])artment. The ward once in- 
cluded the floors above, the latter being now used as orderlies' 
quarters. The Gay Ward is employed as a relief ward when others 
are being renovated. 



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One now continues on through the corridor^ and turns to 
the right into a long passage. This passage leads to the ward, 
built in 1903, which is set apart for skin, nerve, and nose and 
throat cases. From this long corridor the visitor now turns off 
to the left and enters the new out-patient bidlding. 

The floor he now is on contains a large amphitheatre for 
clinical lectures to students, the male surgical and medical 
rooms and the genito-urinary rooms, all ample and well adapted 
to their uses. On the floor above are the women's medical and 
surgical departments, and the rooms for children's diseases. On 
the third floor are the skin, nerve, nose and throat departments, 
and another amphitheatre for students. The Massachusetts 
General Hospital has never had a gynecological department, 
the patients afflicted with the diseases of women being treated 
by the medical or surgical services. 

After a careful inspection of all these different floors one 
should now descend to the basement, where he will find the 
desks of the admitting physician and his assistants, the ortho- 
pedic department, the out-patient X-ray room and the record 
room. The latter is a model of its kind, and should be in- 
spected. 

The hospital also maintains a Convalescent Home in the neigh- 
boring town of Waverley. Situated on a hill within the grounds 
of the McLean Hospital, it offers a splendid opportunity for 
the speedy recovery of patients who have long been confined 
to their beds. The home accommodates about thirty patients, 
and is in charge of a matron, a nurse, and a house ofl^icer from 
the general hospital. 

The McLean Hospital, known until 1892 as the McLean 
Asylum for the Insane, was opened to patients in October, 
1818, and received its name from John McLean, who be- 
queathed $100,000 to the institution. Its charter is the same 
as that of the Massachusetts General Hospital and it is under 
the control of the same board of trustees. The annual reports 
of the two institutions are also published together. From its 
foundation in 1818 to 1895 the McLean Hospital was located 
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designed, like those of the General Hospital, by Charles Bulfinch. 
In 1875 a large tract of land situated on a hill in the town of 
Waverley was purchased for the use of the hospital. The situa- 
tion is one of great beauty, elevated and salubrious. The 
estate has been added to until now it contains about two 
hundred acres. In 1895 the hospital was moved there from 
Somerville, and comprised eighteen fine buildings. Since then 
several additions have been built. The effect of individual 
residences is gained by choosing sites for these houses at dif- 
ferent levels and by adopting for each of them a different 
style of architecture. There are accommodations for nearly two 
hundred patients. All kinds of mental diseases are treated, 
the fine situation, skilled care, and pleasant surroundings con- 
tributing greatly to the chance of recovery. In 188^2 a training 
school for nurses was organized; this is open to men and wo- 
men, who receive training in general nursing with special re- 
ference to the care of mental disease. The course for men is 
two years, that for women is two and a half years. 

As one leaves the Massachusetts General Hospital by way of 
the new out-patient department, he finds himself on Fruit 
Street, at the head of North Grove Street, where stands the old 
brick building which from 1846 until 1883 was occupied by 




M.\SS\( IirSKTTS GENERAL HOSPITAL 
AND HAHVAUn MEDICAL SCHOOL IN 1852 

the Harvard Medical School, but since then used hy the nnnnrd 
Dental School. The Dental School was founded in 18()7 by the 



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President and Fellows of Harvard University. Up to 1883 it 
occupied several different quarters in the West End. The 
school confers the degree of D.M.D. after a three years' 
course, of which the first year is the same as that of the med- 
ical school. The staff" numbers about sixty. Students are in- 
structed by actual work on patients, of which over six thou- 
sand were treated during 1904-5 at the school infirmary. There 
are ample and well equipped laboratories and lecture rooms. 
In the near future the school is to occupy larger and better 
quarters on land adjoining that of the new medical school. 
Massachusetts has a Board of Registration in Dentistry, and 
it is necessary to pass an examination by the board before per- 
mission to practise is granted. 

Those who are interested may now go down North Grove 
Street a few steps and inspect the new Morgue , built in 1903. 

Medical Examiners. Massachusetts has a system of medical 
examiners whose duty it is to investigate every case of sup- 
posed death by violence. Well qualified medical men are ap- 
pointed by the Governor and Council for the term of seven 
years. Each county of the State is divided into districts, and 
one or more examiners is assigned to each district. Suffolk 
County, in which Boston is situated, has two medical exami- 
ners and an associate medical examiner. It is the medical ex- 
aminer's duty to view every body supposed to have come to a 
violent death, and if he thinks it necessary to make a further 
investigation he makes an autopsy, first having obtained con- 
sent of the district attorney. The North Grove Street Morgue 
is the headquarters of the northern district of Suffolk County, 
and the City Hospital Morgue for the southern district. 

The medical examiner is required to give expert testimony 
in court if there is need, and he has to make an annual re- 
port to the Secretary of the Commonwealth of the records of 
all violent deaths. 

It may interest the visitor to know that the land extending 
from the Dental School building and from the westerly end 
of the old building of the Massachusetts General Hospital has 
all been filled in since the Dental School was built. The best 



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idea of the extent of this new-made land can be had by con- 
sulting the map of old Boston, facing page 2, and the picture 
which shows the old Medical School and the Massachusetts 
General Hospital in 1852, on page 98. 

Returning from the Morgue to Fruit Street, and turning to 
the left, one comes beyond the out-patient department of the 
Massachusetts General Hospital to the fine new building of the 
Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear hifirmary. This institution 
owes its origin to Dr. Edward Reynolds and Dr. John Jeffries, 
who, in November, 1824, opened a small dispensary in an- 
other part of the town, for gratuitous treatment of the poor 
afflicted with diseases of the eye. Two years later the success 
of the effort was so great that the dispensary was incorporated 
by the legislature under its present title. After two temporary 

headquarters, it 
removed, in 1850, 
to the building 
standing at the 
corner of Charles 
Street and Cam- 
bridge Street. In 
1899 the infirm- 
ary, having out- 
grown its old 
quarters, moved 
^ to its present fine 
EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY buildinff. The in- 

firmary receives poor patients with diseases of the eye and ear; 
those living in Massachusetts being admitted free unless able 
to pay their board. Those coming from other states are charged 
six dollars per week for their board. There are accommoda- 
tions for l60 patients. 

In 1905, 1,651 patients were treated in the ophthalmic 
wards, and 1,251 in the aural wards. In the out-patient depart- 
ment, 32,417 new patients were treated, of which 23,498 were 
ophthalmic, and 8,919 were aural cases. 

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Building, used solely for the treatment of contagious diseases 
of the eye. In this building 308 cases were treated in 1905. 
An excellent post-graduate training school, for nurses who are 
graduates of any general hospital training school, is main- 
tained. The course is four months, and includes thorough in- 
struction in the care of ophthalmic and aural cases. 

Opposite the Eye and Ear Infirmary is the Charleshank, a 
part of Boston's park system. It is an attractive bit of ground, 
designed for the poor of the neighborhood, and contains a 
gymnasium, playgrounds and sand gardens. Turning to the 
right, and walking along Charles Street to the north, past 
the Charlesbank, one soon comes to Leverett Street. Here 
stands the old Craigie Bridge immortalized in Longfellow's 
poem, "The Bridge." It leads to East Cambridge. Here the 
Charles River Basin Commis- 
sion is constructing a shut-off 
dam which is to convert the 
river above this point into a 
fresh-water lake with a perma- 
nent level. Locks are being 
constructed on the Boston side, 
so that the river may be used 
for commerce, as at present. 
Work was begun in 1 904, and 
it is hoped to have the dam women's gymnasium, carles- 

^ BANK 

and locks completed in 1908. 

This improvement necessitates carrying all the sewers which 
have emptied into the Charles above Craigie Bridge into the 
intercepting sewers, and the total expense of the project will 
be very great. 

On the corner opposite the Eye and Ear Infirmary stands 
the County Jail, generally known as the Charles Street Jail. 

Walking now along Charles Street to the south, one comes 
to Cambridge Street. At its junction begins the new Cambridge 
B?idge, begun in 1900 and not yet completed. It is to take the 
place of the old West Boston Bridge. It is constructed of steel 
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beautiful of the bridges which cross the Charles River. It is 105 
feet wide, and will carry elevated and surface tracks^ besides 
roadways and sidewalks. The total cost is to be $2,500^000. 
On the southwesterly corner of Charles and Cambridge 
streets stands the old building of the Eye and Ear Infirmary, 
now an unsightly structure. Next to it, in fact adjoining it, on 
Charles Street, No. 164, is the house which was occupied by 




NEW CAMBRIDGE BRIDGE 

Oliver Wendell Holmes from 1859 to 1871. It was here that 
he wrote his "Professor at the Breakfast-Table," "Elsie 
Venner," "The Guardian Angel," and a number of his best 
poems. 

No. 148 is of unusual interest. It was the home of James 
T. Fields, the publisher, who lived there until his death in 
1881. It is now occupied by his widow and Sarah Orne Jew- 
ett. The house once opened its doors to Thackeray and Dick- 
ens, and their famous contemporaries. The library is one of 
the richest in this country in original manuscripts (includ- 
ing that of "The Scarlet Letter") and first editions. Rare 
portraits, engravings and autograph letters adorn its walls. 

No. 1.31 Charles Street deserves a word of comment, as 
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and in these years he wrote many of his best books^ and be- 
gan his editorship of the "Atlantic Monthly." 

Walking along Charles Street^ one comes now^ successively, 
to Revere, Pinckney, Mt. Vernon and Chestnut streets, which 
cross Charles Street and lead up to Beacon Hill on the one 
hand, and to the Charles River on the other hand. 

Revere and Pinckney streets, once fashionable in their day, 
are now mostly taken up with boarding-houses. It is worth 
one's while to wander up and down Mt. Vernon Street, as it 
retains, even to-day, much of the old-fashioned stateliness for 
which it was once famous. Here one may see many fine old 
residences, erected in the early part of the last century, of 
sumptuous design and eloquent of refined luxury. 

Near Charles Street one comes to Loidshurg Square, connect- 
ing Mount Ver- 
non Street -wdth 
Pinckney Street. 
This square re- 
calls in many ways 
a bit of old Lon- 
don, and is sup- 
posedly the site 
of Blackstone's 
Spring. The lat- 
ter point is in dis- 
pute, however, for 
there were many 
springs in this locality; but it is interesting to know that 
Boston's first settler, William Blackstone, had his orchard in 
this region, and that his homestead was not far off on the 
slope of the hill which faces Boston Common., The square is 
surrounded by fine dignified houses, of which No. 10 is note- 
worthy as having been the home of Louisa M. Alcott. 

At the upper corner of Pinckney Street and Louisburg 
Square is the "mother house" and chapel of the Sisters of 
St, Margaret (Protestant Episcopal), who conduct a private 
hospital occupying the houses at No. 2 Louisburg Square and 




LOUISBURG SQUARE 
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No. 86 Mt. Vernon Street. This hospital was organized in 1882. 
Under their auspices there is also maintained St. Monica s 
Home, for the care of sick colored women. Until recently it 
was located at No. 45 Joy Street, but now occupies more attrac- 
tive quarters on Highland Street, Roxbury. The Sisters of St. 
Margaret also conducted until recently the Children s Island 
Sanitarium on Lowell Island in Salem Harbor. This is reached 
by boat from Marblehead. It was opened in 1886 through the 
generosity of Mr. F. H. Rindge of California. It is especially 
adapted for children with chronic diseases and those convales- 
cing from illness or surgical operations. Working-women seek- 
ing rest are also admitted as boarders. The hospital is now 
maintained under new management. This sisterhood also has 
supervision of the nursing at the Children's Hospital on 
Huntington Avenue. 

If one ascends Mt. Vernon Street to the top of the hill, he 
comes to the arch under the State House from which he 
started, but before this is reached, the visitor passes Walnut 
Street, and is urged to go through this to Chestnut Street 
for the sake of seeing a quiet bit of old Boston. Chestnut 
Street, down which one now descends, retains — perhaps 
more than any other street in this section — its old prestige. 
Flanked on either side by handsome old houses, many of them 
former homes of famous men, it offers a pleasing contrast to 
those portions of this section seen in the first part of our 
ramble. On Brimmer Street, at the foot of Mt. Vernon Street, 
is the Church of the Advent, one of the chief Protestant Epis- 
copal churches of the city. 



THE NORTH END 

THE North End, the aristocratic court end of colonial 
Boston, and rich in historic interest, is to-day wholly 
a foreign quarter of the city. Very few buildings of 
historic interest remain, and we can see only where they 
stood and try to imagine what they and their occupants were 
like. It is difficult now, surrounded by a motley crowd of jab- 
bering foreigners, to picture the days of the seventeenth and 
eighteenth centuries, when this locality was the social centre 
of the Puritan colony. 

Its location can best be understood by a study of the map 
of Boston as it was in early days before the filling-in of the 
surrounding waterways. Standing at the corner of Hanover and 
Washington streets, we see the former street running northeast 
to the harbor front, the way to Chelsea, called " VVinnisimmet 
Ferry," the latter due north to the water's edge, and between 
the two a wedge-shaped area which comprises most of the 
North End. 

Below Washington Street on Hanover is Union Street, and 
here are two historic sites. The Green Dragoti Taverfi, famous 
throughout the early history of the colony, was located just 
back of Union Street in an alley. Its site (now No. 82 Union 
Street) is marked by an effigy of a green dragon, set on a 
brown stone slab about halfway up the front wall of an old 
building. It was the chief meeting-place of the early patriots, 
where much "treason" was hatched. Its existence dates from 
1680 until about the twenties of the nineteenth century, when 
the Green Dragon Lane was widened to form the present 
Union Street. 

A second site of interest, on the southwest corner of Union 
and Hanover streets, is Josiah Franklias dwelling and chandlery 
shop, at "The Sign of the Blue Ball," where Benjamin Franklin 
lived as a boy and worked for his father as a candlemaker. This 
was removed in the widening of Hanover Street. 

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as Marshall Street, one of Boston's curious short streets. From 
Marshall's Lane there is another small street, Creek Lane, now 
called Creek Square, which in early days led to the Mill Creek. 
Here, set into the base of a building, is a rough piece of granite, 
marked Boston Stone, 1737, surmounted by a spherical stone. 
This stone served as a direction for the neighboring shops, and 
was the relic of a paint mill brought out from England about 
1700 (see illustration, page 5). On the corner opposite is an an- 
cient building, where was the office of Ebenezer Hancock, de- 
puty paymaster in the Continental Army. 

From the left side of Hanover Street, just below Blackstone, 
is Salem Street, narrow and winding, and peopled almost en- 
tirely by Russian Jews. It 
was the aristocratic street 
of the early colonial days. 
At the corner of Still- 
man Street was the site of 
the first Baptist meeting- 
house, erected in l679 on 
the border of the Mill 
Pond. The present First 
Baptist Church is located 
at the corner of Common- 
wealth Avenue and Clar- 
endon Street. The Baptists 
were a proscribed sect in 
the early days and severely 
persecuted, their meeting-house being closed and its windows 
and doors nailed up by order of the General Court. Farther 
down Salem Street is Prince Street (in part old Black Horse 
Lane), which was the direct way from the North End to the 
Charlestown Ferry, where now is the CharlestoAvn Bridge. After 
the battle of Bunker Hill, many of the British wounded were 
brought to Prince Street houses, which were converted into 
emergency hospitals. One of these houses, still standing, the 
Stoddard house, No. l.SO, at present an Italian tenement and 
butcher shop, is said to be the house in which Major Pitcairn 




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107 



died of his wounds. On the westerly corner of Prince and Mar- 
garet streets is the house where John Tileston Hved^the i)opular 
master of the oldest North End school^ the predecessor of the 
Eliot Grammar school in North Bennet Street. 

Farther down Prince Street is Christ Church, and in very 
close proximity is Copps Hill 
Burying-Ground. These, the 
chief historical landmarks of 
the North End, are dear to 
the hearts of all true Ameri- 
cans. Christ Church, known 
throughout our land as the 
church from whose steeple 
the lanterns were displayed as ^ 
a signal to Paul Revere of the 
British movements, — ^'^One if 
by land, and two if by sea," 
— faces Hull Street. It is the 
oldest church building in Bos- 
ton, having been erected in 
1723. It was solidly built, its 
side walls being two and a half 
feet thick. There are four 
floors to the tower, and from 
the top one General Gage wit- 
nessed the battle of Bunker 
Hill and the burning of 
Charlestown. There are eight 
bells in the tower, brought 
over from Gloucester, England, . 
in 1744, and these ring out Souk .-in c, 
the most melodious chimes in 
Boston to-day. The first spire was blown down in October, 1 805, 
but was rebuilt exactly as the original from a model by Bulfinch. 
On the front of the steeple is this inscription, cut into brown 
stone : '' The original lanterns of Paul Revere displayed in t/ie 
steeple of this churchy April 18, 1775, warned the country of the 




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march of the British troops to Lexingtoii and Concord." The in- 
terior of the church is but little altered. In front of the organ are 
figures of the cherubim. These, and the brass chandeliers, were 
captured from a French ship and presented to the church in 
1758. The old prayer books are still in use, and the silver 
communion service includes several pieces presented by King 
George II in 1733. The clock below the rail has been in its place 
since 1746. The earliest monument to Washington, a bust by 
Houdon, is here. Beneath the tower are a few old tombs, in one 
of which the body of Major Pitcairn was temporarily laid. The 
sexton, living in an adjoining house, shows visitors over the church. 
Fee, twenty-five cents. 

To the south of the church, at the corner of Sheafe Street, 
was the home of Robert Newman, the sexton of Christ Church 
who hung the lanterns, and near by, on Sheafe Street, is the 
site of the birthplace of Rev. Samuel F. Smith, the author of 
^'America." Directly opposite the church is Hull Street, named 
for John Hull, maker of pine-tree shillings. This street was cut 
through his pasture lands in 1701. The last relic of early days, 
an old house which stood edgewise to the street, the Gallop 
house, built in 1722, and Gage's staff headquarters during the 
battle of Bunker Hill, was torn dow^n only a few months ago. 
Gallop's Island, in Boston Harbor, was named after the owner 
of this house, and is the site of the present quarantine hospi- 
tal of Boston. 

Copp's Hill Burying-Ground, on Hull Street, is one of the 
most interesting of the old cemeteries of the city. The North 
Burial-Ground, the earliest of four predecessors on this site, 
was established in l660, at the same time as the Granary 
Burying-Ground. A visit here will well repay the visitor. The 
British soldiers took great pleasure in pistol practice in this 
burying-ground, and many of the gravestones show the effects 
of bullets. A few of the noted graves may be mentioned, — 
those of the three Mathers; Edmund Hartt, the builder of the 
frigate Constitution; Major Samuel Shaw, of revolutionary 
fame, and the Hutchinsons. The top of the hill, which was 
towards the waterside, has been levelled. It Avas from this 



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elevation that the shell was thrown which set fire to Charles- 
town, 

Leaving the biirying-ground and crossing Salem Street^ 
through Tileston^ we come to Hanover again close by Nori/i 
Square. Although now a poor squalid Italian tenement district^ 
the square was once the central point of the North End in its 
most aristocratic days^ when shade trees and stately mansions 
were in evidence. A little low wooden house on North Street, off 
the square, is the only present reminder of the early years. It is 
the house marked as the home of Paul Revere, in which he 
lived from 1770 to 1800. This house was built soon after the 
great fire of l676', on the site of Increase Mather's house, which 
was destroyed in this conflagration. In the upper windows of 
this house on the evening of the Boston Massacre, Paul Revere 
displayed "those awful pictures" which report says "struck the 
spectators with solemn silence, while their countenances were 
covered with a melancholy gloom." An effort is being made to 
preserve this house by purchase. 

On the north side of the square is the site of the Old North 
Church, destroyed by the British during the siege of Boston, 
and used by them for firewood. It was the second meeting- 
house of the Second Church in Boston, founded in iG-iQ. The 
first edifice was burned in the fire of l676. It was known as the 
"Church of the Mathers," because presided over successively 
by Increase, Cotton and Samuel, — father, son and grandson. 

Close to the church, in Garden Court Street, was the man- 
sion of Governor Thomas Hutchinson, — a stately colonial 
mansion on extensive grounds. Close to the Hutchinson estate 
was the Clark- Frankland mansion, well known through Edwin 
Lasseter Bynner's "Agnes Surriage." In the widening of the 
present street, about 1830, most of these houses were torn 
down. North Square was used by the British as a military 
headquarters throughout the siege of Boston, the officers en- 
joying the houses of the good Bostonians, while barracks were 
erected for the soldiers. 

To return to Hanover Street again we come to Battery 
Street, and through this to Commercial Street and its continu- 



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ation southward, Atlantic Avenue. Here were located ship- 
yards, extending well along the water-front, even to the foot 
of Copp's Hill. Famous ships were launched from these yards, 
— the pride of the navy, "^^Old Ironsides," the frigate Boston 
and the brig Argus. Present Constitution Wharf marked the 
site of Hartt's Shipbuilding Yard, where the Constitution 
(^^Old Ironsides") was built. 

Before we leave this interesting locality, so fragrant with 
memories of the early days, we must consider the Boston Float- 
ing Hospital This hospital cares for sick infants and young 
children during the summer months, and has a day and also a 
permanent service. Parents or older children may accompany 
an infant. The work started in 1894 from the efforts of the Rev. 

Rufus B. Tobey. It is the 
second floating hospital in 
this country. New York 
having the first. The boat, 
with its load of sick in- 
fants and anxious parents, 
leaves City Wharf every 
morning at nine, and 
BOSTON FLOATING HOSPITAL stcains out into the low^er 

harbor and bay. The poor, sick, air-starved babies feel the 
strengthening breezes of the bay, color returns, digestion im- 
proves with appetite, and on leaving the boat at 5 p.m., mother 
and infant are equipped with a fresh start against the evil forces 
of the city's summer night. The very sick babies are kept 
permanently, the boat tying up at Pickert's Wharf, in East 
Boston, for the nights and Sundays. 

A new boat is to be in commission this summer. It is 170 
feet in length, and 46| feet beam, and has four decks. The 
lowest deck is for machinery, including a refrigerating and ven- 
tilating ])lant, and apparatus to reduce the moisture in the air to 
a relative humidity of 50°. The next deck is for the dining-rooms 
and staterooms. The main deck is the permanent hospital deck, 
and the upper deck will accommodate 'JOO day-])atients. The re- 
cord of })atients cared for in the summer of 1.005 w^as: perma- 




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nent patients, 279; day patients (new cases), 686, — total num- 
ber of patients on all trips, 2,374. 

Harbor Hospitals 
Quarantine. With the salt sea-breezes in our nostrils, and a de- 
sire to become acquainted with some of our medical institu- 
tions, let us board the good boat Monitor at Eastern Ave- 
nue Wharf at 2.15 p.m., and steam about the harbor. As we 
pick our way among the ferryboats and saucy, busily puffing 
tugs, avoiding here and there a mighty leviathan of the deep, 
or many-masted vessel for the coasting trade, or trim fishing- 
schooner out of Gloucester, smothered under a cloud of can- 
vas, we may see our city from the waterside, and with the 
story of its early days fresh in our minds, marvel at the won- 
ders wrought by Father Time in producing from the peaceful 
water-surrounded Shawmutt the present great metropolis of 
New England, our Boston. 

The many dredging-machines noticed are engaged under an 
act of Congress in widening and deepening the channel, to ac- 
commodate the great vessels engaged in our growing commerce. 

Our first stopping-place is Deer Island, where is located the 
House of Correction, enclosing within its grim walls a colony 
of some fifteen hundred more or less lawless people, male and 
female. The adjoining hospital of one hundred beds gives ample 
and skilled service to the prisoners. The same hospital curi- 
ously serves as a detention hospital for observation as to the 
mental condition of unfortunates not necessarily prisoners. 
During the past year 372 patients were detained for such ob- 
servation. Farther down the harbor, near the great Boston 
Light, is the Quarantine Hospital, on Gallop's Island. The Port 
Physician has his headquarters here, and the buildings scat- 
tered over the island are for those afflicted with contagious 
diseases found aboard vessels entering the harbor. One hundred 
and eleven such cases were quarantined here last year, includ- 
ing three lepers. During the year 86,525 people were examined 
aboard incoming craft, and thirty-six vessels were disinfected. 

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boi% we come to Lo7ig Island, with its hospital and almshouse 
under the management of the Pauper Institutions Department. 
The hospital supports 265 beds^ caring mostly for chronic and 
incurable diseases. A bar to its best efficiency is^ that every ap- 
plicant for admission must^ at least technically^ become a 
pauper. An important service to the community as well as to 
the patients is rendered by the efficient care of cases of tubercu- 
losis, incipient and advanced. During the year some 277 pa- 
tients with pulmonary tuberculosis were treated here with most 
gratifying results. 

Our last stop is at Rainsford Island. Here is the House ofRe- 
Jbrmation, with its hospital for the sick children of the settle- 
ment. During the past year 453 children were treated, 178 be- 
ing classed as hospital patients. 

All these institutions have resident physicians or house offi- 
cers, and in addition a visiting staff made up from among the 
leading physicians of Boston. 

If time serves, the captain of our steamer may land us at 
Moon Island, where are situated the storage basins and the 
outfall of the great southern intercepting sewer of the Metro- 
politan Sewerage System. This sewer drains the valleys of the 
Charles and Neponset rivers; the northern sewer, serving the 
towns of the Mystic valley, discharges at Deer Island. The 
southern sewer was begun in 1876, and has a finely appointed 
pumping station, at the Cow Pasture Point in Dorchester, that 
will well repay a visit. 

Once more we board the Monitor, and arrive at the Eastern 
Avenue Wharf at 5.20 p. m., just as the sun is bathing in golden 
light the western half of the Gilded Dome. 



CHARLESTOWN 

CHARLESTOWN is most easily and speedily reached 
by the "L" trains running to Sullivan Square. After 
leaving the North Station (see North End) the trains 
cross the new Charlestown Bridge, which was completed in 
1900 by the City of Boston, costing 1 1,400,000. Across the 
stream, in Charlestown, to the right, may be seen the docks 
of several lines of trans- Atlantic steamers. 

The few points of interest worth seeing in Charlestown can 
be easily reached by walking from the Thompson Square sta- 
tion of the Elevated Railroad. Harvard men may be interested 
to visit the old burying-ground on Phipps Street near by. In 
this cemetery is a monument to Harvard's founder, John Har- 
vard, erected by several of the alumni in 1828. On Main Street, 
near Thompson Square, is the house in which Morse, the in- 
ventor of the electric telegraph, was born in 1791. 

Walking back to City Square one finds himself in the part 
which was first settled in I629. On the west side of the square 
stood the governor's house, where in 1630 the Court of As- 
sistants decided on the name of the adjacent town of Boston. 

On the slope of the hill rising behind the present Public 
Library, in early days called Town Hill, was the lot owned by 
John Harvard, and on it stood his house near where Main 
Street now begins. At the foot of the hill, at the northern end 
of the square, there once existed a cemetery, and here it is 
supposed was John Harvard's grave, but all trace of it has 
been lost. 

One now goes down Water Street to the corner of Wapping, 
where stands the main entrance to the Charlestown Navy Yard. 
Visitors are admitted daily by passes obtained at the main gate. 
The Navy Yard, ninety acres in extent, occupies Moulton's 
Point, where the British troops landed before the battle of 
Bunker Hill. 

The Yard contains many features of interest, — among them 
the famous old Constitution, the receiving-ship Wabash, a large 



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N. L. SteLbliu, Ph'Ao. 

THE CONSTITUTION 



rope-walk^ a naval museum, the old granite dry dock and the 
fine new concrete dry dock completed August 1, 1905, at an 

expense of over a million dollars. 
It took six 3^ears to build it; 
it is 700 feet long and 144 feet 
wide, and can accommodate the 
largest vessel afloat. Marines are 
in readiness to explain the differ- 
ent sights, and the visitor is made 
to feel quite free to wander at 
will. 

On leaving the Navy Yard, 
Bunker Hill Monument will be the next objective point, and 
is by far the most worth w hile of the city's sights. The monu- 
ment stands on Breed's Hill, where the great battle was fought. 
It is reached by returning to City Square and walking along 
Main Street until one comes to Monument Avenue, which leads 
to the main entrance of the grounds. 

A bronze statue of Colonel William Prescott attracts imme- 
diate attention. It stands about on the site where the gallant 
leader stood at the opening of the battle. The monument itself 
occupies the site of a corner of the American fortifications. It 
is built of Quincy granite brought from a quarry in the town 
of that name by the first railroad laid in this country. The 
monument is 221 feet high, and 
30 feet square at the base. It was 
begun in 1825, the corner-stone 
being laid with great ceremony by 
Lafayette, while Daniel Webster 
delivered the oration. After a 
period of idleness covering nearly 
twenty years, the efforts of public- 
spirited American women raised 
funds with which the work could 
be carried on. The monument was 
completed in 1842, and at its dedication on June 17, 1843, 
Webster delivered another oration. A spiral flight of 295 stone 




, Photo. 
NEW DKV DOCK 
CHAllLESTOWN NAVY YARD 



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steps leads to the top of the 
structure^ whence from the ob- 
servatory a grand and far- 
reaching view is obtained. 

Bunker Hill itself is north of 
Breed's Hill, near where the 
Elevated Railroad ends, and its 
summit is called Charlestown 
Heights. 

The United States Naval 
Hospital is in Chelsea, just be- 
yond the Charlestown Bridge. 
It is connected with the Navy 
Yard and affords care and 
medical treatment to sick and 
disabled men of the naval ser- 
vice. It has one hundred beds. 
Visitors are welcome. 

The United States Marine 
Hospital (1798) is on High 
Street in Chelsea. It is reached 

by electric cars or the Chelsea Ferry. It furnishes medical and 
surgical relief to the sick and disabled of the American mer- 
cantile marine. It has one hundred and fifty beds and an out- 
patient service. Visiting days, Tuesdays and Fridays. 




BUNKER HILL MONUMENT 



EAST BOSTON 

EAST BOSTON^ across the Harbor^ comprising two 
islands, — Noddle's and Breed' s, — is a place of docks 
and factories. It was once famous for its shipyards, 
where the fleet clipper-ships were built. Many of the trans- 
Atlantic steamship lines have their wharves here. 

On Camp Hill is the site of the house of Samuel Maverick, 
the earliest settler, and later the site of a fort. 

East Boston is reached most conveniently by the New Tun- 
nel, which is entered at Scollay Square, and extends under 
Court and State streets. Where it crosses Atlantic Avenue 
there is a station which has elevators to take passengers to 
the Elevated Railway. Under the harbor the top of the lowest 
part of the tunnel is sixty feet below mean low-water mark, 
and the tunnel is nearly level. It has walls of concrete, and 
is 23 feet wide and 20j feet high, and carries two electric rail- 
way tracks. The total length of the tunnel, from Scollay 
Square to Maverick Square in East Boston, is 7,500 feet. 



SOUTH BOSTON 

SOUTH BOSTON is a large residential section, and is 
also a place of docks and factories. The extensive 
Commonwealth Docks on the harbor side are well 
worth inspecting, as also Lawley's Shipyard, where noted 
yachts are built. 

On Dorchester Heights is a monument commemorating the 




PERKINS INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND 

erection of the American fortifications which forced the British 
to evacuate Boston, March 17, 1776. 

Beautifully situated on the hill is the Perkins Institution for 
the Blind, founded by Samuel G. Howe in 1829- Not far away 
on the Heights, commanding an extensive view of the harbor 
and city, is the Carney Hospital. It was founded in 1863 
through the generosity of Andrew Carney, who not only gave 
the land, but an endowment of $75,000. It is managed by the 
Catholic Sisters of Charity, St. Vincent de Paul. During the 
siege of Boston, Washington planted his cannon on this very 
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for surgery, gynecology, medicine, ophthalmology and ortho- 
pedics. The gynecological department, with its separate wards 
and operating room, has always been a strong branch of the hos- 
pital. There is an ex- 
tensive out-patient 
department, well 
housed in a new 
building, in which 
were treated last 
year 1 6,1 69 pa- 
tients. It was in 
this hospital that 
the late Dr. John 
Homans first de- 
monstrated to the 
profession in New 
England the pos- 
sibility of operating 
successfully upon 
CARNEY HOSPITAL ovarian tumors. 

At the harbor end of the district is Marine Park of the Boston 
public park system, a favorite recreation ground in summer. 
Here is a beautiful boulevard on the water's edge. A long 
bridge connects Fort Independence (a disused government for- 
tification ceded to the city for park purposes) with the boule- 
vard, and from here the parkway extends along Columbia Road 
to Franklin Park and the Blue Hills. The statue facing the har- 
bor is of Admiral Farragut. 

At the foot of L Street is a public hath, open the year round. 
Crowded in the hot days with men and bo3s enjoying the 
pleasures of a swim, it is used by a few hardy men during 
our coldest days. Photographs exist showing one foolish man 
swimming among the floating ice cakes. 




DORCHESTER 



RUNNING southeast from the Dudley Street Termmal 
of the Boston Elevated Railroad, we proceed to Dor- 
^ Chester, along Dudley Street. We must take notice 
in passing of the buildings of the Little Sisters of the Poor, at 
the beginning of Blue Hill Avenue, where once was the home 
of Enoch Bartlett, famous for his Bartlett pears. 

Dorchester is a place of homes. It was the largest town in 
New England in l634, and was annexed to Boston in 1838. Its 
inhabitants were the first on 
the New England coast to es- 
tablish fisheries. Two sites are 
worth mentioning, — Meeting- 
House Hill, which has had a 
church on its summit since 
1631, and the Old Burying- 
Ground at the corner of Stough- 
ton Street and Columbia Road. 
Richard Mather, the founder 
of the Mather family, lies buried 
here, and William Stoughton, - 
the chief justice of the Salem 
witchcraft trials. Another in- 
teresting landmark, really in 
Roxbury, but close to Dorches- 
ter, is at the corner of Washing- 
ton and Eustis Streets — the Eliot Burying-Ground, where are 
the tombs of the Dudleys and John Eliot. It is open Saturday and 
Sunday afternoojis. 

Before leaving Dorchester mention must be made of the 
medical institutions. On Dorchester Avenue, near the Milton 
line, is the Boston Home for Incurables, founded in 1882. It is 
a private institution of fifty beds, devoted to the care of the 
poor afflicted with incurable diseases. On Quincy Street is an- 
other hospital for advanced consumptives, — the Free Home for 




M. D. Miller, Photo. 

FIRST Px\RISH CHURCH 
MEETING-HOUSE HILL 



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Consumptives, established in 1892, and supporting thirty beds. 
On Cushing Avenue is St. Marys Infant Asylum and Lying-in 
Hospital, OYga.n\zed in 1 874 by the Sisters of Charity, St. Vincent 
de Paul. The hospital has forty beds. 



ROXBURY 

THE Roxbury District, full of interest historically, is 
now, as in earlier years, a place of residences. In l630 
a band of settlers coming over with Winthrop took 
up their abode here, settling near the present Eliot Square. It 
was called Rocksbury or Rocksborough, from the great ledge of 
rocks running through it, the so-called Roxbury pudding-stone. 
One recalls the legend of the giant, familiar to the children 
of Boston, through Dr. Holmes's poem: 

He brought them a pudding .stuffi'd with plums, 

As big as the State House dome; 
Quoth he, "There's something for you to eat, 
So stop your mouths with your lection treat, 

And wait till your dad comes home." 



What are those lone ones doing now. 

The wife and the children sad? 
0, they are in a terrible rout. 
Screaming and throwing their pudding about, 

Acting as they were mad. 

They flung it over to Roxbury hills. 

They flung it over the plain, 
And all over Milton and Dorchester, too, 
Great lumps of pudding the giants threw. 

They tumbled as thick as I'ain. 

Giant and mammoth have pass-ed away. 

For ages have floated by; 
The suet is hard as a marrow bone, 
And every plum is turned to a stone. 

But there the puddings lie. 

In 1631 came John Eliot. The early settlers were of good stock, 
educated and able. On the hill known as Meeting-House Hill, 
now Eliot Square, was erected in l6,32 the first meeting-house. 
Its roof was thatched and the walls unplastered; there were 
no pews or spire, but about it centred the life of the village. 



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By law the settlers were compelled to live within one half mile 
of the church for protection against the Indians. For sixty 
years John Eliot preached here. On the north side of the square 
is still standing the parsonage built by the Rev. Olin Peabody 
in 1750. Here was Town Street, now Roxbury Street. 

An interesting landmark is ^SY. Lukes Home for Convalescents, 
at No. 149^ occupying a house over one hundred years old. This 
Home, estabhshed in 1872^ is a charity supported by the Epis- 
copal churches of Boston. It 
gives shelter to women in a 
convalescent stage_, and can 
accommodate twenty-six pa- 
tients. A board of visiting phy- 
^^^^ sicians look out for the medical 

rfl^^H needs of the inmates. 
^^^1 On the south side of the 
S^^l square is the Norfolk House, at 
one time a noted hotel^ and 
south of this is the site of the 
Roxbury High Fort of revolu- 
tionary interest. Here is now a 
landmark in the nature of a 
tall water tower^ or "Stand 
Pipe/' painted white, built in 
Dr. M. D. Miikr, Photo. 1 869. 

PARTING STONE, ROXBURY Qn the Westerly side of the 

square, near Centre Street, is the Parting Stone, marked Tlie 
Parting Stone, 17Jf.Jf, P. Dudleij. This stone marked the way in 
one direction to Cambridge and Watertown, and in the other 
to Dedham and Rhode Island. 

Taking the road to the west, toward Brookline, over what 
is now Mission Hill, we pass the Mission Church, built by the 
Redemptorist Fathers in I869. Farther on is Huntington Ave- 
nue, and here is a large group of buildings, — the House of the 
Good Shepherd, a Catholic institution for wayward girls and 
women. Opposite this is Parker Hill, or "Great Hill," as it was 
called, from the summit of which one obtains a glorious view 




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of Boston and the harbor. On the top of the hill lived the 
worthy John Parker. 

There are two semi-pubUc hospitals located at present upon 
the hill, — the Women s Charity Club Hospital, of twenty-eight 
beds, and, nearer the summit, the Nov England Baptist Hospi- 
tal, of twenty-seven beds and seven tents. In the restful quiet 
of the hill, yet so near the busy city, the patients enjoy the ad- 
vantages of both country and city. Just beyond, in a large va- 
cant estate, is the Day Hospital for Cofisutnptives, managed by 
the Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Tuberculo- 
sis. In the warm weather patients come from the city, mounting 
the hill in carriages, and enjoy the cool dustless breezes and 
generous diet provided. The experience of its first year has de- 
monstrated its worth. This leads us to consider the 

Provisions for Tuberculosis in Boston and Massachusetts 

The Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Tubercu- 
losis has rooms at No. 8 Beacon Street. It is a voluntary associa- 
tion of physicians and laymen devoting its energies to the edu- 
cation of the public as to the character of tuberculosis, by means 
of lectures, leaflets, and exhibits. It also maintains a nurse, who 
visits among the consumptive poor, instructing them in pro- 
phylactic measures. It agitates for segregation of consumption 
in institutions and for increased provision for early and ad- 
vanced cases. 

The Boston Board of Health, Old Court House, Court Square, 
makes free bacteriological examinations of sputum, requires 
that tuberculosis be reported by attending physicians, makes 
sanitary inspection of the home when a case is reported, com- 
pels hospital care if conditions are bad in the home, and disin- 
fects after a death or removal. 

The Massachusetts State Sanatorium , Rutland, Massachusetts, 
is fifty miles from Boston, on the Boston and Maine Railroad; 
station Muschopauge. The sanatorium was opened in 189H, be- 
ing the first state institution of its kind in America. Its capacity 
is S65 patients. The medical staff consists of two visiting physi- 
cians from Boston and three resident assistants. Patients in 



124 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

the earliest stages of pulmonary tuberculosis are treated. The 
cost per patient per week in 1905 was 18.83^ of which the pa- 
tient was required to pay $4. 

Hospitals for Advanced Consumptives. The City of Boston has 
appropriated $150,000 to begin the erection of a hospital for 
advanced consumptives, the trustees of this new department 
taking office May 1, I906. 

Private charitable hospitals for the care of consumptives are 
as follows: the House of the Good Samaritan, corner of Francis 
and Binney streets, Longwood ; the Free Home for Consumptives, 
No. 438 Quincy Street, Dorchester; the CuUis Home, Blue Hill 
Avenue, Dorchester; the Channing Home, No. 30 McLean Street, 
and the Sharon Sanatorium at Sharon. 

The insane are cared for at the Danvers Insane Hospital, at 
Danvers, the prisoners at Deer Island, Boston Harbor, and the 
paupers at the Almshouse and Hospital on Long Island, Boston 
Harbor, and the State Hospital at Tewksbury. At Tewksbury a 
separate hospital and two outdoor sleeping shacks accommo- 
dated 148 male consumptives in the winter of 1905-6. A build- 
ing for women is in process of erection. 

Sejyarate Treatment of the Tuberculous among Public Dependents. 
The state is building a separate prison for consumptives in the 
town of Rutland. 

The Sharon Sanatorium for cases of incipient pulmonary dis- 
eases is at Sharon, Massachusetts, eighteen miles from Boston, 
on the Providence Division of the New York, New Haven and 
Hartford Railroad. Capacity, twenty-one beds. It was first 
opened for patients February 9, I89I, and was founded by Dr. 
V^incent Y. Bowditch on the principles laid down in (Germany 
by Brehmer at Goerbersdorf, and by Dettweiler at Falken- 
stein, and in America by Trudeau at Saranac Lake, New \'ork. 
It was at first uni(|ue in that it lies at only about two hundred 
and fifty or three hundred feet above the sea-level, only twelve 
miles from the seacoast, and in the harsh, changeable climate of 
New England, which up to recent years has been considered 
most unfavorable for the treatment of such cases. It was the 
first institution of its kind in New England, and is intended for 




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women of very limited means who are in the early stages of 
pulmonary disease. 

A nominal price of five dollars a week, exclusive of laundry, is 
asked. The public supplies the deficit. The services of the medi- 
cal directors and medicines are given free of charge. The results 
of treatment have shown that tuberculosis can be cured near 
home in a large percentage of cases. The members of the Ameri- 
can Medical Association and their friends are cordially invited 
by the directors to visit the institution. The superintendent and 
the resident physician will be present to ex- 
})lain the methods pursued at the sanatorium. 

To return to Eliot Square, and proceeding 
east, we come to the Dudley Street Termi- 
nal and Warren Street. Just back of the Peo- 
ple's Bank on the south side of the terminal, 
on Dudley Street, is the site of the home of 
John Eliot, noted preacher for sixty years, 
first missionary to the Indians, translator of , 
the Bible into the Indian language, one of # 
the founders of the Roxbury Free School, 
— "In zeal equal to St. Paul, in charity 
to St. Francis." Taking Warren Street 
south, the way to Braintree and Plymouth, 
we find some interesting landmarks. At War- 
ren Place, on a farm of seven acres, was the -^"^^^^^^ wahken 
Warren homestead, built in 1720 by Joseph Warren, grand- 
father of General Joseph Warren. Troops were quartered here 
during the siege of Boston. On the site of the old homestead 
Dr. John C. W^arren erected in 1846 a stone building as a per- 
petual memorial; and on June 17, 1904, a bronze statue in the 
square, the gift of the citizens, was dedicated to General Jo- 
seph Warren, — "Physician, Orator, Patriot, killed at I^unker 
Hill, June I7th, 1775." 

Close by, on Kearsarge Avenue, is the Roxbury Latin 
School, founded in l645 as the Roxbury Free School. 

At the corner of Tolman Place and Warren Street stands the 
oldest house in Roxbury, built in l683. Still farther south, past 



126 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

Grove Hall_, on the way to Franklin Park^ is the Cullis Con- 
mmptive Home, estabUshed in 1871. This is a private hospital 
of forty beds for advanced consumptives. 

Franklin Park_, just beyond, is our largest playground, a 
park of five hundred acres. Splendid woods^ tennis courts, ball 
grounds, and an excellent golf course offer their varied attrac- 
tions to the visitor. Leading from Elm Hill across the park to- 
wards Milton and Plymouth was an old Indian trail. Near this 
point, on the hill, Ralph Waldo Emerson lived when he taught 
school in Roxbury. 

Near the edge of the park are two groups of buildings, Aus- 
tin and Pierce farms, making up the Boston Insane Hospital, 
with its separate departments for men (Pierce Farm) and for 
women (Austin Farm), on Walk Hill Street and Canterbury 
Street respectively. 

There are about ten thousand insane persons in the State of 
Massachusetts. They are under the control of the State Board of 
Insanity, made up of five members appointed by the Governor, 
two of them being physicians. Nearly all the insane, including 
the feeble-minded, the epileptic and the dipsomaniacs and in- 
ebriates, are cared for by the following fourteen state institu- 
tions, of which the Medfield Asylum is the largest, the addresses 
being given in case any of the members of the American Medi- 
cal Association wish to visit the hospitals: Worcester Insane 
Hospital (N. Y. C. & H. R. R. to Worcester); Taunton Insane 
Hospital (N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. to Taunton); Northampton In- 
sane Hospital (Boston & Maine R. R. to Northampton); Danvers 
Insane Hospital {Boston & Maine R. R. to Hathorne); JVest- 
horongh Insane Hospital (N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. to Talbot); 
Worcester Insane Asylum (same as Worcester Hospital); ISIed field 
Insane Asylum (N. Y., N. H. c*^- H. R. R. to Medfield Junction); 
State Colony for the Insane at (utrdner (Boston «S: Maine R. R. to 
Gardner); /i.s;/////?/? Jl'ards, State Hospital (Boston & Maine R. R. 
to Tewksbury); State Farm for Insane Criminals at Brid genial cr 
(N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. to IMticut); Hospital for Dipsomaniacs 
and Inebriates {^. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. to Foxborough); Hospi- 
tal for Epileptics (N. Y. C. & H. R. R. to Palmer); Hospital Cot- 



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t ages for Children (Boston & Maine R. R. to Baldwin ville) ; and 
the School for the Feehle-Minded (Boston & Maine R. R. to 
Waverley). 

Tlie Boston Insane Hospital (N. Y., N. H. cSc H. R. R. to Forest 
Hills, or Grove Hall electric cars) has a capacity of 660, and 
cares for the pauper insane, having a settlement within the 
limits of Boston. It is owned and managed by the city and par- 
tially supported by the State. Some 450 insane are boarded in 
almshouses or are in family care, and 215 are in nineteen li- 
censed private institutions, of which the McLean Hospital at 
Waverley (see page 97), a department of the Massachusetts 
General Hospital, and having a capacity of about two hundred, 
is the largest. 

Not far from the Boston Insane Hospital buildings is the 
beautiful Forest Hills Cemetery, with its crematory and chapel 
on Walk Hill Street, one of the two chief cemeteries of the 
city. Mt. Hope Cemetery and the Catholic Cemetery are in this 
neighborhood also. 

In the distance from Franklin Park are the Blue Hills, where 
are many attractive estates. Great Blue Hill, with its weather 
bureau observation house on top, is a popular climb. The Blue 
Hills were once the home of the deadly rattlesnake. 

Not far from Franklin Park, on the road to Boston, via Rox- 
bury Crossing, is seen the New England Hospital for Women and 
Children, incorporated in 1863. Its beginning was due very 
largely to the efforts of Marie Zakrewska. Its object was and is 
now: 1. To provide for women medical aid of competent physi- 
cians of their own sex. 2. To assist educated women in the prac- 
tical study of medicine. 3. To train nurses for the care of the 
sick. It is a large hospital of one hundred and twenty-five beds, 
vigorous and proud of its history. Its active medical staff is 
com])osed entirely of women physicians. Here was established 
in 1873 the first training school for nurses in America. 



JAMAICA PLAIN AND WEST ROXBURY 

SOUTHWEST of Roxbury, in what was West Roxbury, 
lies Jamaica Plain. Its early history is really that of 
Roxbury. We find in l689 John Eliot giving seventy- 
five acres of land^ "the income from which was to be used for 
the support of a school and a schoolmaster." The present Eliot 
School, on Eliot Street, commemorates this gift, and is de- 
voted to the giving of free instruction in wood-carving, car- 
pentering, needlework and drawing. On Centre Street, near 
Green, is a two-story cottage with painted roof and dormer 
windows, which was sold in 1740 to Benjamin Faneuil, nephew 
of old Peter Faneuil,and purchased in 1802 by the distinguished 
Dr. John C. Warren. In 1828 it became the property of Samuel 
Goodrich, the author, who was the kindly, well beloved Peter 
Parley of our childhood days. 

At the corner of Centre and South streets is the old 
Greenough homestead, w^here lived five generations of Green- 
oughs. This house was the headquarters of General Nathaniel 
Greene during the siege of Boston. Near here stands the old 
milestone inscribed: "5 miles to Boston Tow^n House, 1735. 
P. Dudley." 

Close by is Jamaica Pond, once a source of water supply to 
Boston, now a feature in our chain of parks, and affording boat- 
ing in summer and skating in winter. 

Near the Forest Hills Station of the New York, New Haven 
ik, Hartford Railroad is the magnificent Bussey estate, be- 
queathed to Harvard University for the purpose of furnishing 
"instruction in practical agriculture, useful and ornamental 
gardening, botany," cSrc. The Btissnj Ifisiii/dio/i was built in 1871, 
and the beautiful Arnold Arhorelum, containing over one hun- 
dred and sixty acres of hilly land, has been in process of de- 
veloj)ment ever since. Here are in great profusion rare varieties 
of trees, shrubs and deciduous plants. 

In the 13ussey Institution is a station of the Massachuscll.s 
Slate Board of Ileallh, which had its origin as far back as 1 8 1'9, a 



GUIDE TO BOSTON 129 

year of unusual sickness and mortal it}^ throughout the state. 
There had been much typhoid^ dysentery and scarlet fever, and 
in addition cholera had carried off about twelve hundred of the 
population. The legislature authorized a commission to report 
upon the sanitary condition of the state, and the commission ad- 
vised the establishment of a "general board of health." The 
board was established twenty years later under the title of the 
State Board of Health, and was reorganized with enlarged 
powers in 1886. 

The State Board of Health now consists of seven members, 
three of whom are physicians. They are appointed for a term 
of seven years each. It has also a secretary, who is a trained 
physician of the highest standing, a consulting engineer, a 
chief engineer, a consulting chemist, a chemist, a pathologist 
and an analyst of food and drugs. 

The board has supervision of the sale of liquors, milk, ice, 
vinegar and food in general; of hospitals, nuisances, offensive 
trades, pollution of water supply; sewage and its disposal ; and it 
is authorized to publish the result of its investigation of adul- 
terated articles. It has on file at the State House a long list of 
conspicuous fraudulent preparations with a statement of the 
exact amount of their noxious ingredients. It manufactures 
and distributes antitoxin and vaccine lymph from its station 
at the Bussey Institution. 

On high wood-covered ground, overlooking the Arboretum, 
is the Faulkuer Hospital, opened in 1903. It is the gift of 
George Faulkner and his wife Abby L. A. Faulkner, in mem- 
ory of their daughter Mary, for the good of the people of the 
old town of West Roxbury. There are twenty-eight beds de- 
voted to surgical, medical and obstetrical work. 

One other medical institution demands our attention before 
leaving Jamaica Plain, — the Adams Nervine Asijhim on Centre 
Street, close by the Arboretum. Funds for its establishment 
w^re left in 1873 by the will of Seth Adams, late of Newton, 
"for the benefit of such indigent, debilitated, nervous people, 
who are not insane, inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Mas- 
sachusetts, as may be in need of the benefit of a curative in- 



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stitution." There are rooms provided for thirty-six female pa- 
tients and thirteen male patients. 

On Chestnut Avenue^ corner of Wyman Street, is located 
the Massachusetts Infant Asylum, whose object is to assist and 
provide for delicate and destitute infants. Children under 
eighteen months are admitted, and in caring for them "the 
true relation of parent and child" is carefully safeguarded. Most 
of the children are cared for in the home ; a few are boarded 
out in good families. About two hundred infants are treated 
annually. 



BROOKLINE 

BROOKLINE, or Muddy River as it was called^ was 
used as a grazing place for swine and cattle in colonial 
times. Originally a part of Boston, in 1705 it was set 
apart as an independent town and has remained a town ever 
since. To this day the Brookline town meetings are famous 
for their lively and public-spirited discussions of matters of 
town government. It is a place of homes, many apartment 
houses and beautiful estates. The mere mention of some of 
the beautiful estates must suffice in this sketch, and the 
reader is assured that a trip around this town, the richest in 
the United States, will be well worth while. The Gardner, 
Sargent, Schlesinger, Winthrop, Lee, Lowell, Lyman, Brande- 
gee and Whitney places, and the Country Club, are some of 
the most noted. 

Not far from the Country Club, on Newton Street, is the 
Brookline Board of Health Hospital, comprising a group of mod- 
ern brick hospital buildings, caring for scarlet fever, diphtheria, 
tuberculosis and smallpox. Private patients from other cities are 
received here. 

At the western end of the town is the Chestnut Hill Re- 
servoir and pumping station, part of the Metropolitan Water 
Works. The two lakes of the reservoir, nestling at the base 
of the surrounding hills, make one of the most attractive bits of 
scenery about Boston. 

No city in America possesses so many attractive suburbs 
as does Boston. The Newtons, Wellesleys, Natick, Dedham, 
Weston, Milton, Mattapan, to the southwest, and Waltham, 
Medford, Winchester and Middlesex Fells, to the north, are 
easily accessible by trolley or automobile, and excursions are 
planned for our honored guests to enjoy the beauties of these 
towns. 

In every city and in almost every town about Boston one 
finds a hospital. Among the semi-private hospitals the Coreij 
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town of Brookline^ is unique. It was built and equipped by a 
group of Boston physicians for the care of private patients, 
under conditions beheved to be most conducive to their medi- 
cal and surgical welfare and a speedy convalescence. The money 
for construction and maintenance was subscribed by these 
men, by whom the entire stock is held and controlled. The 
modern fireproof building was opened in June, 1901<j> and ac- 
commodates about thirty patients. The beds are open to physi- 
cians of Boston and vicinity, irrespective of any stock-holdings, 
applications for rooms being made to an executive committee, 
or by the stockholders to the resident matron and superinten- 
dent. 

The patients remain under the direction of their individual 
physicians, and are cared for in their absence by the resident 
house doctor. Great emphasis is laid on sunshine and fresh air. 
The patients are encouraged to spend much of their time in the 
sun rooms, on the numerous balconies and on the broad first- 
floor verandas, to which the beds maybe rolled directly from the 
adjoining rooms. It is believed that this represents a successful 
attempt to supply the community with a perfectly equipped 
private hospital in a healthful situation, and attractive in its 
internal detail. 

There is a training school for nurses connected with the hos- 
pital, — the Massachusetts General, Waltham, Children's, New- 
ton and Adams Nervine schools sending a certain number of 
their nurses in the latter part of their third year of training. 
Special nursing is provided by a corps of carefully selected 
graduate nurses. 

Visitors are always welcome. 

The Free Hospital for Women is situated on Pond Avenue, 
opposite the Riverdale Park, in Brookline. This hospital, fash- 
ioned after the })lan of the Woman's Hospital in the State of 
New York, was established in 1875 by Dr. W. H. Baker, and 
was first located on East Springfield Street, Boston. From this 
institution for twenty years came the teachings of Marion Sims 
and Thomas Addis P'mmet to the medical profession of New 
England through the Professor of Gynecology in the Harvard 



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Medical School^ the surgeon in chief to the hospital. The pre- 
sent building was erected in 1 895, and has an ultimate capa- 




FREE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN 

city, when completely finished, of sixty beds. It is an incorpo- 
rated institution, being supported by an endowment fund and 
by the annual subscription of churches and charitable individ- 
uals. The object of the hospital is the surgical treatment of 
the diseases peculiar to women, and only the poor are admitted, 
all the beds being free. The hospital has in connection with it 
an out-patient department at No. 633 Massachusetts Avenue, 
Boston, w^here a large gynecological clinic is held morning, 
afternoon and evening. The number of patients treated in the 
hospital in 1905 was 353. 

In Newton is a large hospital of nearly one hundred beds, 
with a mixed staff of regular and homeopathic physicians and 
a training school for nurses. 

In Waltham is a hospital, interesting very largely because of 
the unique Waltham Training School for Nurses which is asso- 
ciated with it. A most comprehensive course of training is given 
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training is devoted to nursing in private families among the 
poor, under careful supervision of physicians. This is the train- 
ing school which Dr. Alfred Worcester was instrumental in 
founding and with which he has been connected from the be- 
ginning. Waltham is the home of the American Waltham Watch 
Company, one of the largest watch factories in the world, where 
the famous Waltham watches are made. Over 3500 hands are 
employed, and the plant is soon to be doubled in size. 



CAMBRIDGE 

A CROSS the river from Boston proper is Cambridge, the 
/ % " University City," joined to Boston by five bridges. 
2 m. The river here is wide, and at high tide presents a 
beautiful expanse of water. In process of construction is a dam 
to keep the river at a definite level and the water fresh. When 
completed in 1908, according to the present plans, it will give 
to Boston and Cambridge a large sheet of water of inestima- 
ble value from artistic, hygienic and pleasure-giving points 
of view. We first come to Cambridgeport, largely a manufac- 
turing district, and through this we proceed to Cambridge 
proper. 

Massachusetts Avenue is the main street, and passes the 
Citi/ Hall, the gift of Frederick H. Rindge. Just back of it, now 
marked by a tablet, was the headquarters of General Isaac 
Putnam during the siege of Boston. Near by, on Cambridge 
Street, is the Holi/ Ghost Hospital for Incurables. Established in 
I894, it offers seventy-five beds for the care of incurables, — a 
splendid charity, and supported by private funds. Farther up 
Massachusetts Avenue, about twenty-five minutes' ride in the 
electric cars from the Sub way at Park Street, is Harvard Square, 
and the entrance to the College Yard, — the old College Yard, 
dear to all graduates, where glorious elms temper the sun's rays, 
and nod their welcome to the sturdy sons of fair Harvard. 
Across the yard 
are old buildings, 
rich in traditions 
and hoary with 
age. Massacliu- 
setts Hall dates 
back to 1720. 
H oil is, Harvard 
and Massachu- 
setts Halls were ^- ^- ^'''""'^ ^^"'"'• 

J , 1 harvard hall AM) .lOHXSTON GATE 

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^\ '" ■-^s^r^^'^^^.J^ ^y *^^^ Continental Army 

during the Revolution. Be- 
tween Massachusetts and 
Harvard Halls is the 
main entrance to the yard, 
through the Johnston 
Gateway, This gate is in- 
scribed with the orders of 
the General Court, relat- 
ing to the establishment 
of the College in l636. 
There are many buildings to inspect, — some beautiful from 
length of service, as Wadsworth House, 1726, once the head- 
quarters of General Washington ; others from an architectural 
point of view, all of them rich in traditions and associations, 
— the Harvard U?iioii, the gift of Major Henry Lee Higginson 
and Henry Warren, the Phillips Brooks House, Hcmemvai) Gi/m- 
nasiwn, Memorial Hall, Law School, the various museums and 
the great »S'/r/(/?//m. On the Delta by Memorial Hall is tlu statue 
of John Harvard, whose gift of * / ^ /j 

his library in l636 made the jk' 

real beginning of the College. * ^^ 

Northwest of the College 
Yard lies Cambridge Common, 
and west of the common stands 
the famous Washington Elm, 
under which, as every school- 
boy knows, W^ashington first 
took command of the Continen- 
tal forces. Opposite the elm is 
Radcliffe College for women, 
a part of Harvard University, 
wliich had its beginning in 
1879. The name Radcliffe is of 
some interest. In 1643 Lady 
Anne Moulton gave the first Souh Art Co., Photo. 

, - - -- 1 ^ JOHN HARVARD 

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137 



^100^ and in grateful re- 
membrance of this^ the 
women's department was 
named Radcliffe^ Lady 
Anne's maiden name. 

Close by is Christ Church, 
built in 1760 by Peter 
Harrison, who designed 
King's Chapel in Boston. 
A milestone near the fence 
reads, "Boston 8 miles, 
1734." As the only road 
at that time to Boston led 
through Brighton and Rox- 
bury and across the Neck, 
now Washington Street, it 
was indeed eight miles. 

Farther down Harvard Square, at Dunster Street, is a tablet 
marking the site of the house of Stephen Daye, the printer of 
the first book printed in English North America, the "Bay 
Psalm Book," l639; and still farther down Dunster Street, at 
the corner of South, is seen the tablet marking the site of the 
house of Thomas Dudley, the founder of Cambridge. 

Outside Harvard Square are many interesting and historic 
places. Soldiers Field, across the river, the gift of Major Henry 




THE WASHINGTON ELM 




THE STADIUM 

Lee Hiamnson to the Universitv, in memory of his classmates 
who died in the Civil War, is the athletic field. The Stadium, 



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l)uilt after the Greek 
models is the gift of the 
^ Athletic Association and 
of the class of '79- Its 
total cost was 1250,000. 
It encloses a field seven 
hundred and forty-eight 
feet long and two hun- 
dred and thirty feet wide. 
It is a steel frame filled in 
with Portland cement. Its 
seating capacity is 23,400. 
For the Harvard- Yale Football Game additional seats are 
added, with a grand stand at the east end, so that the seating 
accommodation is raised to 35,000. The graduates of both uni- 
versities, far and near, look forward to the Harvard- Yale game 
of football, and with their families arrive in Boston a day or two 
before the event. Proud mothers and comely, vivacious and 
enthusiastic daughters crowd our hotels and lend to our staid 
city an air of unwonted gaiety. The undergraduates are noisily 
in evidence. Picture this gay throng of our country's choicest 
seated in the beautiful Stadium, the air vibrant with cheers and 
the strains of martial songs, flags waving, hands clapping, as 
some mighty hero in crimson or blue, with ball tucked safely un- 
der arm, dashes down the field. It is a sight, an experience, to stir 
the blood of the dullest and thrill his innermost cerebral centres. 

South from Harvard Sq., 
and running west, is Brat- 
tle Street, the most beauti- 
ful street in Cambridge. 
On Brattle Street is the 
well-known Longfellow 
House, built in 1759 by 
John Vassall. It was Wash- 
ington's headquarters aftt 
leaving the Wadswort 
House, and later becam 




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the home of the poet Longfellow^ and is at present occupied 
by his daughter. Miss Alice Longfellow. Some little distance up 
the street is PLlmwood Avenue, which leads to Mt. Auburn Street, 
where is the beautifully situated home of James RurS.sell LniveU. 
The Lowell house is also reached by Mt. Auburn Street. 

South of Brattle Street, and parallel to it, is Mt. Auburn 
Street, which for a short distance runs along the river's edge. 
On the left, overlooking the river and Soldiers' Field, is the 
StiUman Ivjinnarij, belonging to the University. Each student 
taking courses 
in Cambridge is 
charged four dol- 
lars a year for the 
support of the 
Infirmary, and 
this entitles him 
to two weeks' 

free treatment. dTm d. MUkr, photo. 
The majority of stillman infirmary 

sick students use the Infirmary when necessary. Next to it 
are the buildings of the Cambridge Hospital. Still farther on, at 
the junction of Mt. Auburn Street and Brattle Street, is the 
beautiful and peace-inviting Mt. Auburn Cemeteri), the resting- 
place of many distinguished dead. To wander along the beau- 
tiful walks of this cemetery is to meet the names of New Eng- 
land's most famous sons. The old chapel of the cemetery was 
converted into a most attractive and serviceable crematory in 
1902. This is one of the two crematories of New England, the 
other being located at Forest Hills Cemetery, In 1905 there 
were four hundred and ten cremations at these two institutions. 




THE NORTH SHORE 

FOR many years the shores of Massachusetts Bay have 
been made use of as summer watering-j)laces^ both by 
the inhabitants of Boston and the surrounding towns, 
and by people from a distance who are in search of a gUmpse of 
old ocean and refreshing sea-breezes. Many are the arguments 
as to the respective merits of the North and the South Shores. 
To the north are woods and rocks and cool breezes from off 
the water; to the south are sand^ stronger winds and a more 
equable climate, where it is possible to sit on the piazza during 
the evenings unless, by chance, the wind fails and the tireless 
mosquito puts in an appearance. 

The North Shore extends from Cape Ann, where the city 
of Gloucester — the greatest fishing port on the coast — is 
nestled under the protection of Eastern Point, safe from the 
fury of Atlantic storms, up to the city's limits at Winthrop. 

Some of the most beautiful and elaborate estates in the 
world are to be found in Beverly Farms and Manchester, on 
the northerly shore of Salem Harbor. Here forest and ocean 
meet at sandy beach or rocky headland, and the wealthy Bos- 
tonian travels daily back and forth between his place of busi- 
ness and his home, in his steam yacht or in a special express 
train. 

Nearer to Boston are the more modest summer resorts of 
Marblehead,Swamj)scott, Lynn, Nahant, Revere and Winthrop. 

Starting for Marblehead, the scene of the Agnes Surriage 
romance, we take the train at the North Station, and select a 
seat on the right-hand side of the car, raising the window. Let 
our imagination carry us back to colonial times, before the 
days of the "iron horse." Sir Harry Frankland is s})eeding 
northward to meet his love: 

Make way! Sir Unrnjs roac/i tnid four, 

And liveru'd y rooms thot ridr! 
They cro.s.s the ferry, touch the .shore 

On WinnlsininiefN ,side. 



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They hear the wash on Chehsea Beach, — 

The level marsh they pass, 
Where miles on miles the desert reach 

Is roagh with hitter grass. 

The shining horses foam and parit. 

And now the smells begin 
Of fishy Swampscott, salt Nahant, 

And leather-scented Lynn. 

Next, on their left, the slender spires 

And glittering vanes, that crown 
The home of Saletns fmgal sires. 

The old, witch-haunted town. 

Marblehead is a quaint old town^ situated on the tip of the 
peninsula which forms the southern boundary of Salem Har- 
bor. It is a little over half an hour from Boston by the Boston 
& Maine Railroad. The town was settled in I629. It has a fine, 
deep harbor, and from being an important fishing and trading 
port has become the chief yachting rendezvous on the Atlan- 
tic coast. During the Revolution, Marblehead furnished over 
twelve hundred men to the government service. Brigadier- 
General John Glover, one of the bravest and most distin- 
guished officers of the Revolution, who died in 1797, is buried 
in the old cemetery on the hill overlooking Marblehead Har- 
bor. There is a statue of General Glover on Commonwealth 
Avenue in Boston. 

The streets of Marblehead are notorious for their crooked- 
ness. Apparently, every man built his house on this rocky 
promontory exactly where he pleased, without much reference 
to his neighbors, so that while one front door looks squarely 
upon the street, the next one will be at an angle of ninety 
degrees, and the third house will be entered from the rear. 
The oldest Episcopal Church in New England is St. MichaeFs 
(1714), a modest structure hidden away in a nest of wooden 
buildings, not a stone's throw from the electric cars, which 
pass through the centre of the town. 

The Colonel Jeremiah Lee mansion (1776), No. I69 Wash- 
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ST. MICHAEL S CHURCH 
MARBLEHEAD 



also the birthplace of Elbridge 
Gerry (nearly opposite the North 
Church), a signer of the Declara- 
tion of Independence, Governor of 
Massachusetts and Vice-President 
of the United States. The well of the 
Fountain Inn, where began the 
romance of Agnes Surriage, cele- 
brated by Edwin Lasseter Bynner 
in a novel, and by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes in a poem, is 
to be seen at a point only a few steps from the terminus of the 
electric-car line. 

The Eastern Yacht Club, with ample accommodations for its 
members, has its house and landing stage on the Neck, and 
also the Corinthian Yacht Club. A steam ferry connects the 
mainland with the Neck and also a good road across the cause- 
way. On the town side of the harbor the Boston Yacht Club 
has a house and wharf Both steam and electric cars connect 
Marblehead and Salem, some five miles apart. 

Salem, fourteen miles to the northeast of Boston, on the Bos- 
ton & Maine Railroad, was settled in 16^6. From Salem came 
John Winthrop and his compan- 
ions to the founding of Boston. 
The town is noted for the perse- 
cution of the witches, and Gal- 
lows Hill, where nineteen witches 
were hanged, is one of the chief 
points of interest to the tourist. 
It is on Boston Street, and is ap- 
proached from Hanson Street, 
Witchcraft documents and relics 
may be seen in the brick Court 
House on Washington Street, fi- 
cing Federal Street. Salem was 
once the chief port of New Eng- 
land, and controlled all the East 
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HAWTHOUXK S BlRTIirLACE 



Nathaniel Hawthorne was born 
in Salem^ and his birthplace on 
Union Street^ No. 21 , is still stand- 
ing. The house dates from before 
1693, and belonged to Hawthorne's 
grandfather. 

The old Custom House^on Derby 
Street, is the one in which Haw- 
thorne served as surveyor of the 
port in 1846-1849. On the easterly 
side of the building, on the second 
floor, is the room in which his fancy 
evolved the "Scarlet Letter," and in another room is preserved 
a stencil with which he marked inspected goods with " N. Haw- 
thorne." 

The Es^^ex Institute, on Essex Street, where is a museum of 
historical objects, manuscripts and portraits, the largest collec- 
tion of its kind in the country, should be visited. Also the 
Pickering House, No. 18 Broad Street, built in l649, the 
birthplace of Timothy Pickering, soldier and statesman of the 
Revolution and member of Washington's Cabinet. 

The oldest house now standing in Salem is the Roger Wil- 
liams, or Witch House, corner of Essex and North streets. It 
is said to have been the home of Roger Williams from \6S5-Q, 
and is called the witch house because of the tradition that 
some of the preliminary examinations of the accused persons 
were held in it. 

Revere Beach is a part of 
the Metropolitan Park System, 
of which Bostonians are justly 
proud. It is nearly three miles 
long and is bordered by a 
boulevard connecting it with 
the Middlesex Fells Parkway. 
Back of the boulevard are all 
sorts of amusement enter- 
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land," Looping the Loop, the Steeplechase and Roller Coaster. 

There is a splendid State Bath-House here, which is man- 
aged under modern aseptic methods, and is open to the public. 

The beach is reached by a short trip over the Narrow Gauge 
or Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad, which skirts the 
shore all the way from East Boston. The station is at Rowe's 
Wharf: trains every Jif teen minutes ; fare Jive cents. The beach 
may also be reached by trolley cars from Scollay Square or 
the Sullivan Square Terminal of the Elevated Railway. 

The Metropolitan Park System at the present time com- 
prises nearly ten thousand acres reserved for parks and twenty- 
four thousand miles of parkways, in thirteen cities and twenty- 
six towns of the Commonwealth. Some of these reservations 
are under the control of the cities and towns in which they 
lie, as in the case of Boston, whose Board of Park Commis- 
sioners has charge of Commonwealth Avenue, the Fens, 
Franklin Park, Marine Park and other city open spaces. The 
Metropolitan Park Commission controls fourteen reservations, 
including the Blue Hills, Middlesex Fells, Charles River, Ne- 
ponset River and Revere and Nantasket Beach Reservations. 



THE SOUTH SHORE 



THE South Shore includes the country from Quincy 
to Plymouth. Beyond Plymouth is the Cape, ex- 
tending to Provincetown. The resorts along the shore 
may be reached by water or by land, including steam roads and 
trolley. If we choose the land way, we must pass through 
Quincy, and this is most quickly reached by the New York, 
New Haven & Hartford Railroad. 

There is considerable of historic interest in Quincy, since it 
is the birthplace, home and burial-place of two early presi- 
dents, — John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams. In 
Bradford's diary of the Ply- 
mouth colony mention is 
made of one Thomas Mor- 
ton, who in 1627, expelled 
from the Plymouth Colony 
with his boisterous friends, 
settled at Mount Wollas- 
ton, a short distance north 
of Quincy. Because of the 
merry revels he and his fol- 
lowers had there they 
named it "Merry Mount." 

The Quincy quarries are 
still worked, and furnish a 
very good granite. Here was built the first railway in America, 
in 1827, to carry the granite from the quarries to tide water. 
A portion of the original roadbed, with the iron-capped granite 
rails and a stone tablet, may be seen at the crossing of the 
Braintree branch of the New York, New Haven & Hartford 
Railroad by Squantum Street, near the East Milton station. 

Opposite the Quincy railroad station is a solidly built granite 
church, the First Parish Church (Unitarian). This was built in 
1828, to carry out certain provisions in the will of John Adams. 
He left granite quarries to the town, and ordered a "temple " to 




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146 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

be built to receive his remains. In the basements are the tombs 
of the two presidents and their wives. The sexton shows these 
for a small fee. In the old burial-ground near at hand are the 
graves of the very early inhabitants : of John Hancock, father 
of the signer of the Declaration of Independence, of several of 
the Adams family and of the Quincys. 

The Adams Academy, a preparatory school for college, was 
founded by President John Adams. 

On the road toward Braintree, at the corner of Indepen- 
dence Street and Franklin Avenue, are two very old houses, 
belonging now to the Quincy Historical Society, the gift of 
Charles Francis Adams. The smaller house, the older of the two, 
is the birthplace of John Adams, the other that of his son, John 
Quincy Adams. In later years the Adamses lived on Adams 

St., the road to East Mil- 
ton, a beautiful thorough- 
fare. The Adams mansion 
was the home of President 
John Adams from 1787 
until his death, and here 
tlie President celebrated 
his golden wedding. In it 
were married his son. 
President John Quincy 
Adams, and his grandson, 
Charles Francis Adams, 
United States minister to 
E,ngland. It is still occu- 
pied by descendants of the Adams ftimily. 

On Hancock Street, facing Bridge Street, is tlie old Quhicij 
Mansion, known to us through Oliver Wendell Hohnes's 
poem, ^^ Dorothy Q." The poet's mother was a granddaughter 
of "Dorothy Q." 

Beyond Quincy, the way lies through a beautiful country, 
and some of the many towns are worth more than mere men- 
tion. The Weymouths contain some large estates, and in ad- 
dition the Fore River Works, where are building several ships 




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for the navy. Here was built the largest schooner afloat, the 
Thomas W. Lawson, a seven-masted steel schooner, 

HiNGHAM is one of the oldest and loveliest towns on the 
South Shore, with its main broad avenue bordered by superb 
elms. It was the home of Dr. Ezekiel Hersey, the founder of 
the Harvard Medical School. 

Nantasket Beach is beyond Hingham, and extends towards 
the entrance of Boston Harbor. It is a long broad beach with 
fine sand, and facing the open ocean. It is apartof our Metropoli- 
tan Park System, and furnishes an ideal beach for the children, 
and with the steamboat connection with Boston is a favorite 
resort for adults. The bathing here is excellent, although the 
water is cold, and if the surf is high may produce a dangerous 
undertow. The State Bath-House is well kept, and furnishes 
adequate supplies for bathers. The beach is reached either by 
steamer from Rowe's Wharf, or by train from the South Station : 
about an hour by boat, and the same by train. 

From the beach along the shore south, towards Cohasset, is 
the Jerusalem Road, affording a magnificent drive by the ocean. 
Looking off to sea a granite lighthouse is seen rising straight 
out of the water. This is Minoi's Light, a light of the first class, 
built on a ledge submerged at high tide, and in the pathway of 
steamers rounding Cape Cod. Visitors may reach the lighthouse 
by rowboats from Cohasset, and be hoisted in a basket to the 
door in the wall. 

Beyond Cohasset is Scituate, a popular summer resort. "The 
Old Oaken Bucket," a song dear to us all, was written here by 
Samuel Woodworth. 

Egypt is of interest as being the country seat of Mr. Thomas 
W. Lawson. This is a truly magnificent estate, occupying old 
marsh and stone-covered ground. The stables, well stocked with 
thoroughbreds, the barns, filled with "blue ribbon" cattle, the 
kennels, gardens, race track and deer park are gladly shown 
to visitors on receiving a pass, most generously given. Rambler 
rosebushes cover the white fences lining the miles of private 
road, and a more beautiful sight cannot be enjoyed than these 
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Coming to Marshfield we may see the country home of 
Daniel Webster^ and his tomb with the epitaph dictated by 
Webster himself. We are now in close proximity to the old 
Plymouth settlement, and find many interesting historical 
landmarks. In Duxbury are the supposed burial-places of Myles 
Standish and of Elder Brewster and the Aldens. 

Plymouth is reached by train from the South Station. 
When the reader visits this ancient town, the first perma- 
nent settlement in New England, let him reverently honor 
those who in l620 landed here and fought a desperate but 
winning fight against disease, great privations and hardsliips, 
that they might worship God according to their own beliefs. 
The Bradford Manuscript, on exhibition in the State Library 
at the State House in Boston, gives a detailed and graphic ac- 
count of the early years of the settlement. Copies of this have 
been made, and may be purchased for a dollar. 

Close to the water's edge by Pilgrim Wharf is the famous 

Plymouth Rock, protected 
by a granite canopy. In 
the canopy are the re- 
mains of some of the set- 
tlers who died during the 
first winter of the colony's 
existence. Towards the 
centre of the town is Pil- 
grim Hall, the re})ository 
of the Pilgrim antiquities. 
Here are the Elder Brewster and Governor Carver chairs, the 
Peregrine White cradle, the sword of Myles Standish, and many 
other objects of interest. Across the street is the County Court 
House, where the original records, deeds and wills of the Pil- 
grims are preserved, and can be seen. 

The small park overlooking the harbor is on Cole's Hill, 

and marks the site of the first houses. Here, too, were buried 

in unmarked graves those who died during that first awful 

winter. Here are the very words of Bradford, written in l62(): 

'' But that which was most sadd and lamentable was, that 




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in 2 or 3 months time halfe of their company dyed, espetialy 
in Jan. and February, being ye depth of winter, and wanting 
houses and other comforts; being infected with ye scurvie and 
other diseases, w^hich this long viooge and their inacomodate 
condition had brought upon them : so as there dyed some times 
2 or 3 of a daye in ye foresaid time: that of 100 and odd per- 
sons scarce 50 remained." 

In the quaint spelhng of the time, he describes how the six 
or seven well and sound persons administered unto the sick, 
"spared no pains, night or day, but with abundance of toyle 
and hazard of their own health, fetched them woode, made 
them fires, drest them meat, made their beads, washed their 
lothsome cloaths, cloathed and uncloathed them. — Tow of 
these 7 were Mr. William Brewster, their reverend elder, and 
Myles Standish, their captain and military comander. — And I 
doute not but their recompence is with ye Lord." 

Leyden Street leads to Burial Hill, where are many graves 
of the early settlers, among them those of Governor Bradford 
and John Rowland. Here were the first forts for protection 
against the Indians. South of Burial Hill is Watson's Hill, where, 
in March of l620, the Indian Samoset "came loudly amongst 
them, and spoke to them in broken English, which they could 
well understand, but marvelled at it." A few days later he ap- 
peared again with Squanto and the great Sachem Massasoit, 
and from this meeting resulted a compact of peace which 
Bradford mentions as existing twenty-four years later. 

At the extreme north of the town is the National Monument 
to the forefathers, built on a hill, commanding a fine view of the 
harbor and town. 

Beyond Plymouth are the cape towns, well known summer 
resorts. At the end of Cape Cod is Provincetonm, prominent as 
Gloucester in the fishing industries of Massachusetts. It is a 
quaint old town, with a large Portuguese settlement. Towards 
the ocean side are the great sand dunes. Highland Light, and 
numerous life-saving stations. The waters of the cape are very 
dangerous, with strong currents and many sand shoals, lashed 
by frequent gales. The trip to Provincetown and return is best 
made by steamer, a most delightful sail in good weather. 



LEXINGTON AND CONCORD 



LEXINGTON is twelve miles from Boston on the Boston 
8c Maine Railroad^ and divides with Concord the 
^ honors of the opening scene of the Revolution. 
April 19, 1775, the British marched to destroy the military 
stores gathered by the American forces at Concord. They passed 
through Arlington and East Lexington^ where there are several 
interesting tablets commemorating events of the day^ and en- 
tered Lexington^ to meet their first resistance. 

Now a town of four thousand inhabitants, in 1775 not more 

than eight hundred people lived here. At least ten of the 

houses in existence then still survive, and are marked by tablets. 

The interest in Lexington centres round the Common, 

5^- - where the plucky minute- 
men took their stand 
against more than eight 
times their number. A 
boulder, marking the line 
of battle, is inscribed with 
Captain Parker's instruc- 
tion to his men: ^^ Stand 
your ground. Don't fire 
unless fired upon; but if 
they mean to have a war, 
let it begin here." 

Not far off is the Buck- 
man Tavern, where the 
minute-men gathered on 
the morning of the bat- 
tle, and farther south, on a 
little hill, is the belfry in 
which hung the bell that 
sunnnoned them. 

At the east end of the 

STATUE OF CAPTAIN JOHN PARKER ^. 4- j i t-V } 

Lonnnon stands a beautiful 




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51 



statue of Captain John Parker, by Kitson, one of the most sat- 
isfactory of the monuments about Boston. 

In 1 799 there was erected on the west side of the Common 
a granite memorial to the men killed in the battle of Lexing- 
ton. Their bodies lie in a tomb at its base. 

Across the street and behind the church, one finds the old 
burying-ground of the town. Another place of great interest 
is the Hancock-Clark 
house on Hancock Street, 
where Samuel Adams and 
John Hancock were sleep- 
ing when roused by Paul 
Revere. This house con- 
tains nearly all the rich 
collection of the Lexing- 
ton Historical Society. 
Other interesting places 
in Lexington are marked 
by tablets with historical 
data, and on the road to 
Concord, which the British 
travelled, there are two or 
three other places of in- 
terest. 

Entering Concord, and 
passing for the time the 
literary landmarks, one 
comes to Monument Sq., 
a short distance from the 
Boston and Maine Rail- 
road station. Just before 
it is reached, one sees the 
Wright Tavern, built in 1747. Here the British commander. 
Major Pitcairn, as he stirred his brandy, boasted he would stir 
the blood of the Yankee rebels. From the hill nearly opposite, 
Pitcairn watched the battle at the bridge. 

From the Square, a sign points the way up Monument Street 




N. L. Stebbins, Photo. 

MINUTE-MAN, CONCORD 

By ihe rude bridrje that arched the flood. 
Their flag to ApriVs breeze unfurled, 

Here once the embattled Janners xtood, 
Andfi)ed the shot Iteard round the world. 



152 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

to the Battle-Ground. Turning into a lane^ with dark pines on 
either side, one comes to the monument which marks the site 
of the conflict. The setting is particularly impressive, and as he 
crosses "the rude bridge that arched the flood/' looks at 
French's statue of the brave young minute-man, and reads the 
inscription on the monument, no American can fail to be moved. 
Following the retreat of the British a mile or so on the Lex- 
ington road, to Merriam's Corners, one sees the place where 
the enemy were attacked by the farmers and townspeople, and 
fled in confusion. 

Concord is rich in literary associations. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
lived here for many years, and died here. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 
Henry Thoreau, the Alcotts and the Hoar family all lived here. 
Frank B. Sanborn, antislavery man and author, still lives in the 
town. 

Starting again from the Common and going up Lexington 
road, one sees first the beautiful 
Unitarian Church, built on the same 
lines as the former church, which 
was destroyed by fire a few years 
ago. In a still older church, on the 
same site, the Provincial Congress 
__ _ met in 1774. 

WRIGHT TAVERN Across the street, a little way be- 

yond, is the house of the Concord Antiquarian Society, and far- 
ther on the right is Ralph Waldo Emerson s house, still occupied 
by his daughter. About a half mile farther, on the left, is a brown 
house with a curious building on one side. This is the "Orchard 
House," one of the homes of the Alcotts, and in the little build- 
ing the "Concord School of Philosoj)hy" met. The "Wayside," 
just beyond, was at different times the home of the Alcotts 
and Hawthorne. The next house to the W^ayside is the home 
of Ephraim Bull, who developed from the wild grape the de- 
licious and widely cultivated Concord grape. 

Returning to the Square, one sees on the left the Hillside 
Burying-Ground, old and quaint, but not equalling in interest 
the beautiful Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, where rest Emerson, 




GUIDE TO BOSTON 153 

Hawthorne, Thoreau, Louisa Alcott and her father, and many 
members of the distinguished Hoar family. 

Many other places in Concord are worth seeing, — The Old 
Manse, the Public Library and Peter Bulkeley's house among 
them. The village has been called the most interesting one in 
America, and its natural beauties of meadow and river and 
peaceful village streets would alone justify a visit. 



POINTS OF INTEREST REACHED BY THE 
BOSTON ELEVATED RAILWAY 

BOSTON is noted for the excellence, comprehensiveness 
and cheapness of its street-car service. The elevated, 
subway and substantially all of the surface lines in 
Boston and the nearer suburbs are operated by one company, — 
the Boston Elevated Railway Company. The fare is five cents, 
and free transfers are given between surface, elevated and sub- 
way lines at convenient transfer stations, so that it is seldom 
necessary to pay more than a single five-cent fare to ride from 
any point to any other point in this company's territory of 
about one hundred square miles. 

Conductors and other employees will be found very courteous 
in directing strangers as to the best way of reaching any de- 
sired point of interest. It is wise for those who are not famil- 
iar Avith the system to ask surface-car conductors at the time 
fares are paid if transfer checks are required in order to reach 
the point of destination, as transfer checks are issued in some 
cases only by conductors when fares are collected. 

Boston is the only city in the world in which surface, un- 
derground and overhead lines are operated by a single com- 
pany. The Tremont Street Subway was the first subway to be 
built in this country. The East Boston Tunnel is built under a 
portion of Boston Harbor, and connects the central business 
district with an important section of the city. 

The elevated trains supply the principal transit facilities 
north and south through the congested portion of the city. 
The Tremont Street Subway is equi})ped with through north 
and south tracks used by the elevated trains, and two loop 
tracks used by surface cars. One of these loops is used by sur- 
face cars running to points principally to the west and south, 
and the other is used by surface cars running to northern and 
western points. 

An elevated line, called the Atlantic Avenue circuit, runs 
along the water-front, and is served by trains running to all 



GUIDE TO BOSTON 155 

elevated and subway stations. 

The company operates nearly four hundred and fifty miles 
of track and runs about thirty-five hundred cars. The cars are 
clean, comfortable and modern. The most enjoyable as well 
as the cheapest means of going about the city is by street car. 
The number of attractive trolley trips for pleasure and sight- 
seeing is very great. The park system of Boston and the Metro- 
j)olitan district serves both for instruction and recreation. A 
few of the many points of interest that members should visit 
are given in the following brief list which includes only a 
small fraction of what Boston offers. 

Maps of the street-car system showing connections and 
routes will be found at all elevated and subway stations. 

Visitors will do well to provide themselves with some one or 
more of the excellent trolley-trip guide-books whicii can be 
obtained at book-stores and news-stands. 

Near Park Street Subway Station, reached by elevated train, 
or Park Street Subway surface cars. 

Boston Common 

State House 

King's Chapel 

King's Chapel Burying- Ground 

Granary Burying-Ground 

New England Historic Genealogical Society 
Near Scollay Square and Adams Square Subway Stations, 
reached by elevated train, or Washington Street or Adams Square 
surface cars. 

Faneuil Hall 

Old State House 

Stock Exchange 

Old South Church 

Quincy Market 

Court House 

Boston University 
Near Battery Street Elevated Station, reached by Atlantic 
Avenue elevated train, or East Bostofi Ferry surface cars. 

Christ Church 



156 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

Paul Revere' s House 

Copp's Hill Buryiug-Ground 
Back Bay, reached by Park Street Subway surface cars. 

Public Garden 

Boston Public Library 

Art Museum 

Trinity Church 

Museum of Natural History 

Harvard Medical School, present building and new build- 
ings 

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy 

Symphony Hall 

Horticultural Hall 

Children's Hospital 

Tufts College Medical and Dental wSchool 

Boston Medical Library 

New England Conservatory of Music 
West End, reached by West End surface cars from Copley Square, 
or by transfer from elevated train at Pleasant Street Subway to 
Clarendon Hill surface cars. 

Eye and Ear Infirmary 

Massachusetts General Hospital 

Harvard Dental School 
South End, reached by WasJiington Street surface cars. Leave at 
East Concord Street. 

Boston City Hospital 

Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital 

Boston University Medical School 
South Boston, reached by City Poi)it surface cars. 

Carney Hospital 

Dorchester Heights 

Perkins Institution for the Blind 

Marine Park 
Charlestovvn, reached by Hunker Hill su) face carsjrom IVashing- 
toji Street, or by Iran fcr from the elevated at City Square. 

Bunker Hill Monument 

United States Navy Yard 



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Cambridge, reached hij Harvard Square surface cars from Park 
Street Subway or from Bowdoin Square. 

Harvard University 

Washington Elm 

Longfellow House 

Lowell House 

Mt. Auburn Cemetery 
SoMERViLLE, Medford, Malden, readied by surface cars from 
the Sullivan Square Elevated Terminal. 

Prospect Hill 

Old Powder House 

Tufts College 

Royall House 

Craddock House 

Middlesex Fells 
Dorchester, Roxbury, reached by surface cars from the Dudley 
Street Elevated Terminal. 

Franklin Park 

Meeting-House Hill 

Old Burying-Ground 

Roxbury High Fort 

Parting Stone 



SOME BOSTON CHURCHES 

Arlington Street Church (Congregational Unitarian), ArUngton 
and Boylston streets. 

Barnard Memorial {Congregational Unitarian^, 10 Warrenton 
Street. 

Berkeley Temple (Congregational Trinitarian), Berkeley Street 
and Warren Avenue. 

Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church, New Church 
{Swedenborgia7i), 136 Bowdoin Street, 

Bulfinch Place Church (Congregational Unitarian), Bulfinch 
Place. 

Cathedral of the Holy Cross (^Roman Catholic), Washington and 
Maiden streets. 

Central Church (^Congregational Tti?iitarian), Berkeley and New- 
bury streets. 

Christ Church (^Protestant Ejnscopal), Salem Street, North End. 

Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Roman Catholic), 
1545 Tremont Street, Roxbury. 

Church of the Advent {Protestant Ejnscopal), SO Brimmer Street. 

Church of the Disciples (Congi-egational Unitarian), Peter- 
borough and Jersey streets. 

Church of the Holy Trinity (German Roman Catholic), 140 Shaw- 
mut Avenue. 

Church of the Immaculate Conception (7?07;?rt// Catholic), Harri- 
son Avenue and East Concord Street. 

Church of the Messiah {Protestant Episcopal), St. Stephen and 
Gainsborough streets. 

Clarendon Street Church {Baptist), Clarendon and Montgomery 
streets. 

Emanuel Church {Protestant Episcopal), 15 Newbury Street. 

First Baptist Church, Clarendon Street and Commonwealtli 
Avenue. 

First Church {Methodist Episcopal), Temple Street. 

First Church in Boston {Congregational Unitarian), Marlborough 
and Berkeley streets. 



GUIDE TO BOSTON 159 

First Church of Christ Scientist^ Fahiiouth and Norway streets. 

First Parish in Dorchester {Covgrcgational Unitarian), Meeting- 
house Hill, Dorchester. 

First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley Street and Columbus 
Avenue. 

First Religious Society {Congregational Unitarian^, Eliot Square, 
Roxbury. 

First S})iritual Temple (Spiritualist), Newbury and Exeter 
streets. 

Friends' Meeting-House, 210 Townsend Street, Roxbury. 

King's Chapel (Congregational Unitarian), Tremont and School 
streets. 

Mt. Vernon Church (Congregational Trinitarian), Beacon Street 
and Massachusetts Avenue. 

Notre Dame des Victoires {French Roman Catholic), 25 Isa- 
bella Street. 

Ohabei Sholom (^Jewish), 1 1 Union Park Street. 

Old South Church (^Congregational Trinitarian), Dartmouth and 
Boylston streets. 

Park Street Church (^Congregational T'rinitarian), Tremont and 
Park streets. 

Parker y[eYnoY'vc\\(Congregational Unitarian), 1 1 Appleton Street. 

People's Temple {Methodist Episcopal), Columbus Avenue and 
Berkeley Street. 

Ruggles Street Baptist Church, l6.3 Ruggles Street, Roxbury. 

St. John the Evangelist {Protestant Episcopal), Bowdoin Street. 

St. Leonard's of Port Morris {Italian Roman Catholic), Prince 
Street. 

St. Paul's Church {Protestant Episcopal), 136 Tremont Street. 

Second Church {Congregational Unitarian), Copley Square. 

Second Universalist Church, Columbus Avenue and Clarendon 
Street. 

Shawmut Church {Congregational Trinitarian), Tremont and 
Brookline streets. 

South Congregational Church {Congregational Unitarian), New- 
bury and Exeter streets. 

Tabernacle Baptist Church, Bowdoin Square. 



160 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Tremont and 

West Concord streets. 
Trinity Church (Protestant Episcopal), Copley Square. 
Union Church {Congregational Trinitarian), 485 Columbus 

Avenue. 
Warren Avenue Church (Baptist), Warren Avenue and West 

Canton Street. 



SOME BOSTON HOTELS 

Adams House, Washington Street near Boylston Street : Euro- 
pean plan, $1.50 to $5.00. 

American House, Hanover Street near Elm Street: European 
plan, $1.50; 2 persons in a room, $2.00. 

Bellevue, Beacon Street near Somerset Street: European plan, 
$1.50 to $3.00 and upward. 

Brunswick, Boylston and Clarendon streets: American and Eu- 
ropean plans, — American, $4.00 and iiprvard; European, $1.50 
and upward. 

BucKMiNSTER, Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street: 
American and European plans, — Ainerican, $4.00 pcrdaij ; Eu- 
ropean, $2.00. 

Carlton Chambers, 1138 Boylston Street near Fenway: Eu- 
ropean plan. Single rooms, nithout bath, $1.50 per day; with 
bath, $2.00. Double rooms, without bath, $3.00 per day; with 
bath, $4.00. 

Cecil, Washington Street near Boylston Street: European plan. 
Single rooms, $1.00 and upivard; for 2 persons, $2.00 and up- 
ward. 

Clarendon, Tremont Street near Clarendon Street: European 
plan, $1.00 and upward. 

Commonwealth Chambers, Bowdoin Street, West End : Eu- 
ropean plan, $1.00 and upward. 

Copley Square, Huntington Avenue and Exeter Street: Eu- 
ropean plan, $1.00 and upward. 

Crawford House, Court and Brattle streets in Scollay Square: 
European plan, $1.00; 2 persons in a room, $2.00. 

Essex, Dewey Square, opposite South Station: European plan, 
$1.50 and upward. 

Hemenway Chambers, Westland Avenue, near Fenway, Back 
Bay: European plan. Single rooms, with bath, $1.50 to $3.00 
per day. Double rooms, with bath, $2.50 and $4.50. Three 
rooms, with bath, $4.00 and upward. 

Langham, Washington and Worcester streets in the South 



162 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

End: American and European plans, — American, $2.00 and up- 
ward; European .$1.00 and upward. 

Lenox, Boylston and Exeter stveo^ts: European, %\. 50 and upward. 

Lexington, 13 Boylston Street near Washington Street: Eu- 
ropean plan. Single rooms, $1.50 to $2.00 per day; for 2 per- 
sons, $2.50 to $3.00. 

Norfolk House, Eliot Square, Roxbury: American j^lcin, $2.50 
and upward. 

Nottingham, Huntington Avenue and Blagden Street (Copley 
Square): European plan, $1.00 and upward. 

Oxford, Huntington Avenue, opposite }i,xeter Street: Ameri- 
can and European plans, — American, $2.50 and upward; Euro- 
pean, $1.00 and upward. 

Parker House, School and Tremont streets: European pla?i 
$1.50 and upward. 

QuiNCY House, Brattle Street and Brattle Square: American 
and European plans, — American, $3.00 and upward; European, 
$1.00 and upward. 

Revere House, Bowdoin Square: European plan, $1.00 and up- 
ward. 

Somerset, Commonwealth Avenue and Charlesgate East, Back 
Bay: European plan, $2.50 and upward. 

Thorndike, Boylston and Church streets, opposite Public Gar- 
den entrance to Subway: European plan, $1.00 and upward. 

Touraine, Boylston and Tremont streets: European plan, $3.00 
and upward; two in a roo7n $4.00 and upward. 

United States Hotel, Beach, Lincoln and Kingston streets : 
American and European plans, — American, $2.50 and upward; 
European, $1.00. 

Vendome, Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street: 
American plan, $5.00 and upward. 

Victoria, Dartmouth and Newbury streets: European plan,$2.00 
and upward. 

Westminster, Copley Square: European plan, $1.50 and upward. 

Young's, Court Street and Court Square: European plan, $1.50 
ami upward. 

The rates given are approximately the regular rates. 



THEATRES 

The Theatres which will probably be open during the week of 
June 4-9 are marked *. The daily newspapers should be consulted 
for attractions. 

* Boston, Washington Street near West Street. 
^BowDoiN Square, Court Street near Chardon Street. 
■^Castle Square, Tremont and Chandler streets. 

Colonial, Boylston Street near Tremont Street. 

* Empire, Hamilton Place opposite Park Street Church. 
Globe, Washington and Beach streets. 

Grand Opera House, Washington Street just south of Dover 

Street. 
Hollis Street, Hollis Street between Washington and Tre- 
mont streets. 
■^Keith's, Tremont Street opposite Boylston Street Subway 

Exit. 
""'^ Majestic, Tremont Street near Boylston Street. 
Park, Washington Street near Boylston Street. 

* Tremont, Tremont Street opposite Boylston Street Subway 

Exit. 



PLACES OF AMUSEMENT 

NoRUMBEGA Park, coiisisting of a zoological garden, open-air 
theatre_, restaurant and boat-house, is in the township of 
Newton on the bank of the Charles River, at Riverside. It 
is reached by trolley cars from the Park Street station of 
the Subway. 

Lexington Park, between Lexington and Bedford : Zoological 
garden, theatre and restaurant. Trolley cars leave Arlington 
Heights every fifteen minutes, connecting with cars from the 
Subway (Park Street). 

Revere Beach: Bathing, amusement enterprises, "Wonder- 
land" and ocean view. Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn 
Railroad at Rowe's Wharf, trains every fifteen minutes. Also 
trolley cars from Scollay Square, or Sullivan Square Terminal 
of Elevated Railroad. 

Nantasket Beach: Bathing, ocean view, "Paragon Park," 
shore dinners. N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. South Station to 
Nantasket Junction and thence by trolley; or steamer from 
Rowe's Wharf; or direct by trolley from the Dudley Street 
Terminal. 

National League Baseball Grounds, Columbus Avenue and 
Cunard Street, South End: Any trolley cars which go as 
far as Roxbury Crossing, via either Columbus Avenue or 
Tremont Street. 

American League Baseball Grounds, Huntington Avenue 
and Bryant Street, Back Bay: Brookline cars from the Sub- 
way, except Ipswich Street cars. 

Marine Park, South Boston: Restaurant, view of harbor. 
City Point trolley cars leave Park Square every fifteen 
minutes; also from the North and South stations at fre- 
quent intervals. 

Popular Concerts, Symphony Hall, Huntington and Massa- 
chusetts avenues, 8 p.m. daily except Sunday. 



RESTAURANTS 

Hotel Restaurants, connected with all the hotels. 

Alt Heidelberg^ Hotel Plaza, 419 Columbus Avenue. 

Bohemian Cafe, Hotel Westminster, Copley Square. 

Burger Brau, 12 Hayward Place. 

Cook's, 31 Avon Street. 

Crosby's, 19 School Street. 

Dutch Room, Hotel Touraine, Tremont and Boylston streets. 

English Room, Hotel Thorndike, opposite Public Garden. 

Flemish Room, Hotel Lenox, Boylston and Exeter streets. 

The Grapery, Hotel Lexington, Boylston and Washington 

streets. 
Hotel Italy (Jtaliaii), North Square. 
Marliave's, 11 Bosworth Street. 
Marston's, 17 Hanover Street, also 121 Summer Street and 

56^ Washington Street. 
Mieusset's, 840 Washington Street. 
Market Restaurants, about Quincy Market. 
New England Kitchen, 41 Charles Street. 
North Station, Causeway Street. 
Oak Grove Farm, Boylston and Berkeley streets. 
Piscopo (^Italian), 32 Fleet Street. 
Rathskeller, American House, 56 Hanover Street. 
Shooshan's Cafe, Chickering Hall. 
Siegel's Store, Washington and Essex stree'ts. 
South Station, Dewey Square. 
Thompson's Spa, 219 Washington Street. Men only. 
Wardwell's, 340 Washington Street. Men only. 
WiRTH, Charles, S5 Essex Street. 
WiRTH, Jacob, S3 Eliot Street. 
Winter Place Hotel, 1 Winter Place 

and many others. 



LADIES' RESTAURANTS 

English Tea Room, 156a Tremoiit Street. 

Laboratory Kitchen, 50 Temple Place. 

Marston's Lunch Room, 33 Hanover Street. 

Preble's Tea Room, 601 Boylston Street. 

Weber's, 25 Temple Place. 

Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 264 Boylston 

Street. 
Young Women's Christian Association, corner of Berkeley and 

Appleton streets. 




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INDEX OF HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL 
INSTITUTIONS 

The chief page references are printed in dark type. 



Adams Nervine Asylum, 129. 

Advanced consumptives, hospi- 
tals for, 124. 

Almshouse on Leverett Street, 76. 

American Medical Association, 
when organized, 78. 

Association for the Relief and 
Control of Tuberculosis, 123. 

Asylum for the Insane at Dan- 
vers, 78. 

Asylums for the insane in Massa- 
chusetts, 126, 127. 

Ijaptist Hospital, New England, 
123. 

Board of Registration, in Medi- 
cine, 67 ; in Pharmacy, 69, 

Boothby Surgical Hospital, 41. 

Boston Association for the Relief 
and Control of Tuberculosis, 123, 

Boston Board of Health, 123; 
laboratories, 64 ; milk and vine- 
gar, 69, 

Boston City Hospital, 16 ; descrip- 
tion, 41-49 ; entrance, 41 ; Con- 
valescent Home, 49; Rehef 
Station, 48 ; South Department, 
16, 47 ; Nurses' Home, 47, 

Boston Dispensary, 37, 76, 

Boston Floating Hospital, 88, no. 

Boston Home for Incurables, 119, 

Boston Insane Hospital, 79, 126, 
127. 

Boston Lying-in Hospital, 78, 87 ; 
South Branch, 38, 87, 

"Boston Medical and Surgical 
Journal," 77. 

Boston Medical Library, 16, 65. 



Boston Society for Medical Im- 
provement, 66. 

Boston Quarantine Hospital, 111, 

Boston University School of Medi- 
cine, 30. 

Boylston Medical Library, 76. 

Brookline Board of Health Hos- 
pital, 131. 

LyAMBRiDGE Hospital, 139. 

Carney Hospital, 117. 

Channing Home, 88, 124. 

Children's Hospital, 15, 71 ; con- 
valescent home, 71. 

Children's Island Sanatarium, 104, 

College of Pharmacy, Massachu- 
setts, 69, 

Corey Hill Hospital, 130, 

Crippled and Deformed Children, 
Industrial School for, 72. 

Culhs Home, 124. 

Danvers Insane Asylum, 79. 

Day Hospital for Consumptives, 
123. 

Deaconess liospital. New Eng- 
land, 41. 

Deer Island Hospital, in, 134. 

Dipsomaniacs and Inebriates, 
Hospital for, 126. 

Directory for Nurses, 66. 

-bjpiLEPTics, hospital for, 127. 

x* AULKNER Hospital, 129. 
Feeble-Minded, School for the, 127. 
Floating Hospital, Boston, 88, no. 
Free Home for Consumptives, 

119, 124. 
Free Hospital for Women, 132. 



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INDEX OF HOSPITALS AND 



GrooD Samaritan, House of the, 
84 ; old location, 86. 

LiARBOR hospitals. 111. 

Harvard Dental School, 98. 

Harvard Medical School : history 
of, 74-84 ; organized as a dis- 
tinct department of Harvard 
University, 78 ; first degrees in 
Medicine conferred by, 76 ; de- 
gree in Arts or Science required 
for admission, 81 ; four-years' 
course of study made optional, 
80; obhgatory, 80; Graduate 
School, 81 ; new arrangement of 
subjects taught, 81; arrange- 
ment of subjects taught in first 
two years, 81 ; new buildings, 
16, 68, 82; present buildings, 
64, 80 ; Mason Street building, 
24, 77; North Grove Street 
building, 78; Summer School, 80. 

Holmes Hall, 66. 

Holy Ghost Hospital for Incur- 
ables, 135. 

Homeopathic Medical Dispen- 
sary, 49. 

House of Correction Hospital, 
Deer Island, iii, 124. 

House of the Good Samaritan, 84 ; 
old location, 86. 

Industrial School for Crippled 
and Deformed Children, 72. 

Infants' Hospital, 88. 

Insane Criminals, State Farm for, 
126. 

Insane, state hospitals for the, 
126, 127. 

Institution for the Blind, Perkins, 78. 

l^ABORATORV, BostoH Board of 
Health, 64 ; for milk and vinegar, 
69. 

Long Island Hospital, 112, 124. 



INIarine Hospital, United States. 
115. 

Mason Street building of Harvard 
Medical School, 24, 77. 

Massachusetts Charitable Eye and 
Ear Infirmary, 15, 78, lOO. 

Massachusetts College of Phar- 
macy, 69. 

Massachusetts General Hospital, 
15 ; erection of, 77 ; entrance to, 
88 ; description of, 88-97 ; Con- 
valescent Home, 97 ; McLean 
Hospital, 97; Nurses' Home, 95. 

Massachusetts Homeopathic Hos- 
pital, 50; Medical Dispensary, 
49. 

Massachusetts Infant Asylum, 
130. 

Massachusetts Medical College, 
77. 

Massachusetts Medical Society, 
67. 

Massachusetts State Board of 
Health, 128. 

Massachusetts State Sanatorium, 
Rutland, 123. 

Maternity Department of the Mas- 
sachusetts Homeopathic Hos- 
pital, 41. 

Medical Baths, 65. 

Medical Improvement Society, 66. 

Memorial Hospital for Infants, 
Thomas Morgan Rotch, Jr., 88. 

Morgues: Boston City Hospital, 
46 ; North Grove Street, 99. 

A' aval Hospital, United States, 
115. 

New England Baptist Hospital, 
123. 

New England Deaconess Hospi- 
tal, 41. 

New England Hospital for Wo- 
men and Children, 127. 



MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS 



"New England MedicalJournal," 

77. 
Newton Hospital, 133. 
North Grove Street building of 

Harvard Medical School, 78. 
Nurses, Directory for, 66. 

-T ATHOLOGicAL laboratories : Bos- 
ton City Hospital, 45; Massa- 
chusetts General Hospital, 80; 
Sears, 80. [78, 

Perkins Institution for the Blind, 
Pharmacy, State Board of Regis- 
tration in, 69. 

C^UAUANTINE, BoSton, 111. 

Kaixsford Island House of Re- 
formation Hospital, 112. 

Registration, State Board of, in 
Medicine, 67 ; in Pharmacy, 69. 

Registry for Nurses, 66. 

Relief Station, Boston City Hos- 
pital, 14, 

St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 40. 

St. Luke's Home for Convales- 
cents, 122. 

St. Margaret's Hospital, 103. 

St. Mary's Infant Asylum, 120. 

St. Monica's Home, 104. 

School fortheFeeble-Minded, 127. 

Sears Pathological Laboratory, 
80. 

Sharon Sanatorium, 124. 

Smallpox Hospital, Boston, 50. 

South Department, Boston City 
Hospital, 16, 47. 



171 

State Board of Health, Massachu- 
setts, 128. 

State Board of Registration, in 
Medicine, 67 ; in Pharmacy, 69. 

State Colony for the Insane, 126. 

State Farm for Insane Criminals, 
126. 

State Hospital at Tewksbury, 124. 

State hospitals for the insane, 
126, 127. 

Stillman Infirmary, 139. 

Summer School, Harvard Medical 
School, 80. 

1 EUKSBURY, State Hospital, 124. 

Thomas Morgan Rotch, Jr., Me- 
morial Hospital for Infants, 88. 

Tremont Dispensary, 74. 

Trinity Dispensary, 86. 

Tuberculosis, Provisions for, in 
Massachusetts, 123. 

Tufts College Medical School, 15, 
73. 

United States Marine Hospital, 

115. 
United States Naval Hospital, 

115. 

\ iNCENT Memorial Hospital, 86. 

Waltham Hospital, 133. 
Waltham Training School for 

Nurses, 133. 
Warren Anatomical Museum, 78. 
Washingtonian Home, 39. 
Women's Charity Club Hospital, 

123. 



INDEX 



The chief page references are printed in dark type 

Abbott, Gilbert, 91. 
Adams Academy, 146. 



Adams, Charles Francis, home, 
14(). 

Adams, John, birthplace and 
home, 146. 

Adams, John Quincy, site of man- 
sion, 24; home, 146. 

Adams Nervine Asylum, 129. 

Adams, "Sam," 6, 21; statue, 31; 
at Lexington, 151. 

Adams, Seth, 129. 

Adams Square, 31. 

Advanced consumptives, hospi- 
tals for, 124. 

Agassiz, Louis, 11. 

Alcott, Louisa M., house in Bos- 
ton, 103 ; in Concord, 152; burial- 
place, 152. 

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, home, 
102. 

Algonquin Club, 56. 

Almshouse on Leverett Street, 76. 

"America," first sung, 22; author 
of, and birthplace, 108. 

American League Baseball 
Grounds, 73. 

American Medical Association, 
when organized, 78. 

Amusement, places of, 164. 

Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
Company, 23, 32. 

Ancient Barricado, 34. 

Andrew, Governor John A., statue, 
28 ; portrait, 32. 

Antitoxin made, 129. 

Arlington Street Church, 58. 

Armory of First Corps of Cadets, 
51. 



Army and Navy Monument, 25 

Arnold Arboretum, 128. 

Art Club, 57. 

Art Museum, 60. 

Asylum for the Insane at Danvers, 
79. 

Asylums for the insane, 126, 127. 

Athenaeum, Boston, 28. 

Atlantic Avenue, 14, 34. 

Attucks, Crispus, 6; monument, 
24. 

"Autocrat of the Breakfast-Ta- 
ble," 25. 

Back Bay, 2, 15, 36, 53. 
Ballard, John, 7. 
Barricado, Ancient, 34. 
Bartlett, Enoch, house, 119. 
Baseball Grounds, American 

League, 73 ; National League, 

51. 
Bay Colonists, 1. 
Bay State Road, 55. 
Bigelow, Dr. Henry J., 78, 80, 91. 
Bigelow, Dr. Jacob, 77, 80, 91. 
Blackstone Square, 39. 
Blackstone, William, 1 ; site of 

house, 103. 
Beacon Hill, 2. 
Beacon Street, 15, 55. 
Beacon, the, on Beacon Hill, 27. 
Bell, Alexander Graham, 10. 
Belli ngham, Governor Richard, 

21. 
Blue Hills, 16, 27. 
Board of Registration, in Dentis- 
try, 99 ; in Medicine, 67 ; in 

Pharmacy, 69. 
Boot and shoe market, Boston a, 

11. 



INDEX 



173 



Boothby Surgical Hospital, 41. 

Boston Association for the Relief 
and Control of Tuberculosis, 
123. 

Boston Athenaeum, 28. 

Boston Athletic Association, 64. 

Boston Basin, 8. 

Boston Board of Health, 123; lab- 
oratories, 64 ; milk and vinegar, 
69. 

Boston City Hospital, 41-49 ; Con- 
valescent Home, 49 ; Relief Sta- 
tion, 14, 48; South Department, 
47 ; Nurses' Home, 47. 

Boston College and High School, 
30. 

Boston Common, 23, 

Boston Dental College, 73. 

Boston Dispensary, 37, 76. 

Boston, East, 3, 8, 116. 

Boston Elevated Railway, 17, 154. 

Boston Female Asylum, 38. 

Boston founded, 1 ; incorporated, 
8. 

Boston Floating Hospital, 88, no. 

Boston Home for Incurables, 119. 

Boston in Lincolnshire, 1, 7. 

Boston Insane Hospital, 79, 126, 
127. 

Boston Latin School, 51 ; first site, 
20. 

Boston Library, 57. 

Boston Lying-in Hospital, 78, 87 ; 
South Branch, 38, 87. 

Boston Massacre, 6, 30, 34; vic- 
tims' burial-place, 22. 

Boston Medical Library, 16, 65. 

"Boston Medical and Surgical 
Journal," 77. 

Boston Museum, 30. 

Boston Port Bill, 6. 

Boston Proper, 2. 

Boston School Committee rooms, 



Boston Society for Medical Im- 
provement, 66. 

Boston Society of Natural His- 
tory, 58. 

Boston Stock Exchange, 34. 

Boston Stone, 106. 

Boston Symphony Orchestra, 11, 
22, 71. 

Boston Tea Party, 6. 

Boston Theatre, 24. 

Boston University, 29; School of 
Medicine (Homeopathic), 50. 

Boston Water Power Company, 
53. 

Boston Yacht Club, house at Mar- 
blehead, 142. 

Boston & Maine Railroad, 13. 

Boston & Roxbury Mill Corpora- 
tion, 53, 55. 

Bostonian Society, 34. 

Bowditch, Dr. Henry IngersoU, 
residence, 58, 80, 91, 

Bowditch, Dr. Henry P., 82. 

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 11. 

Bowdoin, Governor James, 21. 

Boylston, Ward Nicholas, 76. 

Boylston, Dr. Zabdiel, 5. 

Boylston Market, 24. 

Boylston Medical Library, 76. 

Bradford, Governor, burial-place, 
149. 

Bradford Manuscript, 28, 148. 

Braintree, 8. 

Brattle Square Church, 8, 30. 

Breed's Hill, 114. 

Breed's Island, 116. 

Brewster, Elder, burial-place, 148. 

Brookline, 8, 130. 

Brookline Board of Health Hos- 
pital, 131. 

Brooks, Rev. Philhps, residence, 
57. 

Brunswick Hotel, 59. 

Buckman Tavern, Concord, 150. 



174 



INDEX 



Bulfinch, Charles, 28, 32, 90, 98. 
Bulfinch Front of State House, 

28. 
Bunch of Grapes Tavern, 34. 
Bunker Hill, 6, 7, 17, 114. 
Burial Hill in Plymouth, 149. 
Bussey Institution, 128. 

C/ADETs, First Corps of, armory, 

51. 
Cambridge, 135. 
Cambridge Bridge, new, 101. 
Cambridge Hospital, 139. 
Cambridge Subway, 30. 
Camp Hill, East Boston, 116. 
Cape Ann, 140. 
Carney Hospital, 117. 
Carver, Governor, chair, 148. 
Cass, Colonel Thomas, statue, 54. 
Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 16, 

39- 

Cathohc Cemetery, 127. 

Causeway Street, 14. 

Central Church, 57. 

Central or Business District, 18. 

Chadwick, Dr. James R., 66. 

Chamber of Commerce, 34. 

Channing, Dr. Walter, 77. 

Channing Home, 88, 124. 

Channing, W. E., statue, 54. 

Charles River, 2. 

Charles River Basin Commission- 
ers, 101. 

Charles River Dam, 101. 

Charles Street, 15. 

Charles Street Jail, 101. 

Charlesbank Park, 101. 

Charlestown, 1, 2, 8, 113; how 
reached, 156. 

Charlestown Bridge, 113. 

Charlestown Heights, 113. 

Chauncey, Charles, 4. 

Chauncey Hall School building, 

73. 
"Cheapside," 30. 



Chelsea, 8. 

Chelsea Ferry, 105. 

Chestnut Hill Reservoir, 131. 

Chickering Hall, 15, 70. 

Children's Hospital, 15, 71. 

Children's Island Sanatarium, 104. 

Christ Church, 7, 107, 155. 

Christ Church in Cambridge, 137. 

Christian Science Church, 70. 

Church of the Advent, 104. 

Church of the Disciples, 69. 

Church of the Immaculate Con- 
ception, 54. 

Churches of Boston, some, 158. 

City Hall, 20. 

Clark-Frankland mansion, 109. 

Clarke, James Freeman, 69. 

Codfish, the historic, 28. 

College Club, 56. 

College Hill, Somerville, 17. 

College of Pharmacy, Massachu- 
setts, 69. 

College Yard, the, 135. 

Colonial prison, site of, 20. 

Colonel Jeremiah Lee mansion, 
Marblehead, 141. 

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw Me- 
morial, 26. 

Columbus, Christopher, statue, 39. 

Commercial Street, 14. 

Commonwealth Avenue, 66. 

Commonwealth Docks, 117. 

Concord, 151. 

Concord Grape, the, where de- 
veloped, 152. 

Concord School of Philosophy, 
152. 

Conflagrations, 10. 

Congregational House, 29. 

Conservatory of Music, New Eng- 
land, 15, 72. 

Constitution, the, where built, 
110; in Navy Yard, 113. 

Copley, John Singleton, 60. 



INDEX 



175 



Copley Square, 13, 59. 

Copp's Hill Burying-Ground, 108, 
156. 

Copp's Hill gas works, 9. 

Corinthian Yacht Club, Marble- 
head, 14-2. 

Cornhill, 30. 

Cotton, John, 21 ; house, 29 ; rec- 
tor, 60. 

Council Chamber, Old State 
House, 33. 

County Court House, 29. 

Court Chamber, Old State House, 
33. 

Court of Assistants, 1, 113, 

"Cradle of Liberty," 31. 

Craddock House, Medford, 157. 

Creek Lane, or Square, 106. 

Crematories in Massachusetts, 
139. 

Crippled Children, Industrial 
School for, 72. 

Cullis Home, the, 124, 126. 

Cross streets of Back Bay appro- 
priately named, 54. 

Custom House, LTnited States, 34. 

Uanveks Insane Asylum, 79. 

D'Anville, Admiral, 5. 

Day Hospital for Consumptives, 

123. 
Daye, Stephen, first printer, 137. 
Deer Island, 111, 124. 
Derne Street reservoir, site of, 

27. 
Devens, General Charles, statue, 

28. 
Dewey Square, 14. 
Dexter, Aaron, 75. 
Directory for Nurses, 66. 
Dispensary, Boston, 37. 
Dock Square, 31. 
"Doctors' Row," 56. 
Dorchester, 119. 



"Dorchester Giant, The," poem, 
121. 

Dorchester Heights, 8, 16, 117. 

Doric Hall, 28. 

Douglass, William, 4. 

Drowne, "Deacon" Shem, 32. 

Dry dock, new, 114; old granite, 
114. 

Dudley, Paul, 122; milestone, 128. 

Dudley Street Terminal, 17, 125. 

Dudley, Thomas, founder of Cam- 
bridge, 137. 

Dudleys, burial-places of the, 119. 

-Ejast Boston, 3, 8, 116. 

East Boston Tunnel, 30, 116. 

Eastern Yacht Club, Marblehead, 
142. 

Electric telegraph, first, 10. 

Eliot Burying-Ground, 119. 

Eliot, Charles W., 80. 

Eliot Grammar School, 107. 

Ehot, John, founder of school, 
128; site of house, 125; burial- 
place, 119. 

Ellis, Dr. Calvin, 80. 

Elysium Chib, 70. 

Emancipation Group of statuary, 
51. 

Emanuel Church, 57. 

Emerson, Ralph, Waldo, 11, 64; 
home in Roxbury, 126 ; home in 
Concord and burial-place, 152. 

English High School, 51. 

Ericson, Leif, statue, 56. 

Essex Institute, Salem, 143. 

Ether, history of, 90. 

Ether Monument, 54. 

Eustis Street Burying-Ground, 
119. 

Evacuation of Boston by British, 
monument connuemorating, 
117. 

Everett, Edward, statue, 54. 



176 



INDEX 



Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massa- 
chusetts Charitable, 15, 78, lOO ; 
how reached, 156. 

Faneuil, Benjamin, 128. 

Faneuil Hall, 8, 31. 

Faneuil, Peter, burial-place, 21; 
portrait, 32; residence, 31. 

Faulkner Hospital, 129. 

Fenway Court, 68. 

Ferry, Charlestown, 2, 76. 

Fields, James T,, house, 102. 

First Baptist Society, 31 ; church, 
56; meeting-house, 106. 

First degrees in Medicine con- 
ferred by Harvard Medical 
School, 76. 

First electric telegraph line, 10. 

First Episcopal Church in Boston, 
20. 

First Medical Faculty of Harvard 
Medical School, 77. 

First Parish Meeting-House, Dor- 
chester, 119. 

First Presbyterian Church, 51. 

First public Latin schoolhouse, 20. 

First Quaker Meeting-House, 30. 

First railway in America, 10, 145. 

First training school for nurses in 
America, 127. 

Fisher, Dr. John D., 91. 

Fishing industry, 11. 

Ford Memorial, 29. 

Fore River Works at Weymouth, 
146. 

Forest Hills Cemetery, 127. 

Forest Hills Crematory, 127. 

Fort Hill, 2, 18; in Roxbury, 16. 

Fort Hill Square, 18. 

Fort Point Channel, 14. 

Fountain Inn, Well of the, 142. 

Frankland, Sir Harry, 140; man- 
sion, 109. 

Franklin Avenue, 30. 



Franklin, Benjamin, 10; birth- 
place, 19; parents' birthplace, 
28 ; statue, 20. 

Franklin, James, printing office, 
30. 

Franklin, Josiah, dwelling, 105; 
burial-place, 28. 

Franklin Park, 126, 157. 

Franklin Square, 39. 

Franklin Square House, 40. 

Franklin Union, 10. 

Free Home for Consumptives, 
119, 124. 

Free Hospital for Women, 132. 

Frog Lane, 53. 

Frog Pond, 25. 

Fugitive Slave Riots, 20. 

CiAGE, General, 7. 
Gallop House, 108. 
Gallop's Island, 108; hospitals, 

111. 
Gallows Hill in Salem, 142. 
Gardner, Mrs. John L., residence 

and museum, 68. 
Garrison, Wilham Lloyd, 22; 

statue, 56. 
Gas introduced, 9. 
Gerry, Elbridge, 7; birthplace, 

142. 
Girls' High School, 51. 
Girls' Latin School, 64. 
Girls' Normal School, 51. 
Glover, General John, burial- 
place, 141 ; statue, .'id. 
Good Samaritan, House of the, 

34; old location, 86. 
Goodrich, Samuel, 128. 
Gordon, Rev. G. A., 64. 
Gorges, Robert, 1. 
Gorham, Dr. John, 77. 
Granary Bury ing-G round, 21. 
Grand Staircase Hall in State 

House, 28. 



INDEX 



177 



Grasshopper, the gilded, on 

Faneuil Hall, 32. 
Gray, Asa, 11. 
Great Cove, 2, 35. 
Great Elm, 25. 
Great Fire of 1872, 18, 
Great Hill, or Parker Hill, 122. 
Green Dragon Tavern, 105. 
Greene, General Nathaniel, 128. 
Greenough homestead, 128. 
Griffin's Wharf, 6, 18. 
"Grotto" in Revere House, 86. 

Hale, Dr. Enoch, 91. 

Hale, Dr. George, 78, 91. 

Hale, Edward Everett, 21, 58. 

Hall of the Representatives, Old 
State House, 33. 

Hamilton, Alexander, statue, 56. 

Hancock-Clark House, Lexing- 
ton, 151. 

Hancock, Ebenezer, 106. 

Hancock, John, 21 ; house, 26; at 
Lexington, 151 ; John, senior, 
146, 

Harbor hospitals. 111. 

Hartt, Edmund, burial-place, 108 ; 
shipyard, 110. 

Harvard College, 2, 3. 

Harvard Dental School, 98; how 
reached, 156. 

Harvard Hall, 75, 135. 

Harvard, John, house, 1 13 ; monu- 
ment, 113; statue, 136. 

Harvard Law School, 136. 

Harvard Medical School, history 
of, 74-84; organized as a dis- 
tinct department of Harvard 
University, 78 ; first degrees in 
Medicine conferred by, 76 ; de- 
gree in Arts or Science required 
for admission, 81 ; four-years' 
course of study made optional, 
80; obligatory, 81; Graduate 



School, 81 ; new arrangement of 
subjects taught in firsttwo years, 
81; new buildings, 16, 68, 82; 
present building, 64, 80 ; Mason 
Street building, 24, 77; North 
Grove Street building, 78 ; Sum- 
mer School, 80. 

Harvard Square, 135. 

Harvard Union, 136. 

Harvard- Yale Football Game, 138. 

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1 1 ; birth- 
place, 143 ; house in Concord and 
burial-place, 152 ; room in Salem 
Custom House, 143. 

Hay ward. Dr. George, 78, 91. 

Hemenway Gymnasium, 136. 

Hersey, Dr. Ezekiel, 74, 147. 

Highland Light, 149. 

Hingham, 147. 

Historic codfish, the, 28. 

Historical Sketch of Boston, 1. 

History of Plimoth Plantation, 
28. 

Hoar, family home in Concord, 
152. 

Hoar, Leonard, 4. 

Holden Chapel, 75. 

Hollis Hall, 135. 

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 4, 11, 
37,91; hall named for, 66; homes, 
55, 58, 102 ; last lecture on Ana- 
tomy, 80; Parkman Professor 
of Anatomy, 78 ; work on puer- 
peral septicaemia, 79. 

Holy Ghost Hospital for Incura- 
bles, 135. 

Homans, Dr. John, 118. 

Home for Little Wanderers, 51. 

Homeopathic Medical Dispen- 
sary, 49. 

Hooker, General Joseph, statue 
23. 

Hopkins, Richard, 3. 

Horticultural Hall, 15, 71. 



178 



INDEX 



Hotel Brunswick, 59. 

Hotels of Boston, some, i6i. 

House of Correction Hospital, iii, 
124. 

House of the Good Samaritan, 
84; old location, 86, 124. 

House of the Good Shepherd, 12-2. 

How to Find the Way about the 
City, 12. 

Howard Athenaeum, 29. 

Howe, General, 7. 

Howe, Julia Ward, home, 55. 

Howland, John, burial-place, 149. 

Hull, John, pasture, 108. 

Huntington Avenue, 15. 

Huntington Hall, 59. 

Hutchinson, Anne, 4. 

Hutchinson, Governor Thomas, 
109. 

Hutchinson, Lieutenant-Gover- 
nor, 31. 

Impressjient of seamen, 5. 
Index of Hospitals and Medical 

Institutions, 167. 
Independence Monument, 27. 
Industrial School for Crippled 

and Deformed Children, 72. 
Infants' Hospital, 88. 
Insane, state hospitals for the, 

126, 127. 
Insanity, State Board of, 126, 
Institution for the BHnd, 78. 
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 

of Art, 68. 
Italian Opera first production in 

Bostcn, 29. 

Jackson, Dr. J. B. S., 78, 91. 
Jackson, Dr. James, 67, 76, 88. 
Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury, 

128. 
Jamaica Pond, 128, 
Jeiferson, President, 5. 
Jeffries, Dr. John, 7, 100. 



Jerusalem Road, 147. 

Jewett, Sarah Orne, house, 102. 

Jones, Margaret, 4. 

Jordan Hall, 15, 72. 

Julien, M., 25. 

King Street, 33. 
King's Chapel, 20. 
King's Chapel Burying-Ground, 
21. 

Knox, General, 7. 

L Street Public Bath, 118. 

Laboratories of Boston Board of 
Health, 64, 69. 

Ladies' Restaurants, 166. 

Lafayette Mall, 23; Lafayette at 
Bunker Hill, 114, 

Latin School, first site, 20. 

Lawley's Shipyard, 117. 

Lawson, Thomas W. , country seat, 
147 ; town residence, 55. 

Lee, Colonel Jeremiah, mansion, 
141. 

Leverett, Governor John, 21. 

Lexington, 150. 

Lexington Park, 164. 

Liberty Hall, 25. 

Liberty Tree, 24. 

Little Sisters of the Poor, house, 
119. 

Lofty landmarks, 16. 

"Log of the Mayflower," 2^, 148. 

Long Island Hospital and Alms- 
house, 112, 124, 

"Long Path, The," 25. 

Long Wharf, 34. 

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 

Longfellow House, 138. 
Louis XV, 5. 
Louisburg, 5, 7. 
Louisburg Square, 103. 
Lowell Institute, the, 5}). 
Lowell, James Russell, 1 1 ; house, 
139. 



INDEX 



179 



JNIann, Horace, School, 58; sta- 
tue, 28. 

Marblehead, 141. 

Marine Hospital, 76. 

Marine Park, 118. 

Marlborough Street, 35. 

Marshall's Lane, 105. 

Masonic Temple, 24. 

Massachusetts Avenue, 16. 

Massachusetts Charitable Eye and 
Ear Infirmary, 15, 78, lOO; how 
reached, 156. 

Massachusetts Charitable Me- 
chanics Association, 69. 

Massachusetts College of Phar- 
macy, 69. 

Massachusetts General Hospital, 
15, 88-97 > Convalescent Home, 
97; how reached, 156. 

Massachusetts Hall in Cam- 
bridge, 135. 

Massachusetts Historical Society, 
65. 

Massachusetts Homeopathic Hos- 
pital, 50. 

Massachusetts Infant Asylum, 
130. 

Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology, 59. 

Massachusetts Medical College, 
77. 

Massachusetts Medical Society, 
67. 

Massachusetts State Board of 
Health, 128. 

Massachusetts State Sanatorium, 
Rutland, 123. 

Massasoit, sachem, 149. 

Maternity Department of Massa- 
chusetts Homeopathic Hos- 
pital, 41. 

Mather, Cotton, 4, 64; burial- 
place, 108 ; church, 109. 

Mather, Rev. Increase, home and 



church, site of, 109 ; burial- 
place, 108. 

Mather, Richard, burial-place, 
119. 

Mather, Samuel, burial-place, 
108; church, 109. 

Maverick, Samuel, 1, 3; house, 
116. 

McLean Hospital, 97. 

McLean, John, 97. 

Mechanics Building, 15, 69. 

Medical Baths, 66. 

Medical Examiner System in 
Massachusetts, 99. 

Meeting-house, first, site of, 34. 

Meeting-House Hill, 119, 157. 

Memorial Hall at Cambridge, 17, 
136. 

Memorial Hall in State House, 28. 

Merriam's Corner, Concord, 152. 

Merrymount, 1, 145. 

Metropolitan Park System, 144. 

Metropolitan Sewerage System, 
112. 

Metropolitan Water Works, 10, 
131. 

Middlesex Fells, 157. 

"Mill Dam, The,'' 55. 

Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, 147. 

Minute-Man, Concord, 151. 

Mission Hill and Church, 122. 

Moon Island, 112. 

Morgan Chapel, 51. 

Morgue, North Grove Street, 99. 

Morse, S. F. B., 10; birthplace, 
113. 

Morton, Thomas, 1, 145. 

Morton, W. T. G., 90. 

Mother Church of Christian Sci- 
ence, 70. 

Motley, John Lothrop, 23. 

Motor busses for "Seeing Bos- 
ton," 24. 

Moulton, Louise Chandler, 37. 



180 



INDEX 



Moulton's Point, 113. 
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 139, 
Mt. Auburn Crematory, 139. 
Mt. Hope Cemetery, 127. 
Mt. Vernon Church, 56. 
Muddy River, 130. 
Murray's Barracks, 30. 
Museum, Boston, 30. 
Museum of Fine Arts, 60. 
Music Hall, Boston, 22. 

Nantasket Beach, 147. 

National League Baseball 
Grounds, 51. 

Natural History Society, 38. 

Navy Yard, 113. 

"Neck, The," 36. 

Newbury Street, 57. 

New Church Union, 57. 

New England Baptist Hospital, 
123. 

New England Conservatory of 
Music, 72. 

New England Deaconess Hospi- 
tal, 41. 

New England Historic Genea- 
logical Society, 29. 

New England Hospital for Women 
and Children, 127. 

"New England Medical Journal," 
77. 

New Jerusalem Church, 57. 

Newman, Robert, house, 108. 

New "Old South" Church, 63. 

Newton Hospital, 133. 

Niles Building, 20. 

Noddle's Island, 1, Ii6. 

Norfolk House, 122, 

Normal Art School, 58. 

Normal School of Gymnastics, 
59. 

North Burial-Ground, 108. 

North End school, the, 107. 

North End, The, 105. 

Nortli Flior(\ M'hc, 140. 



North Square, 109. 

North Station, 13. 

Norunibega Park, 164. 

Nurses' Home, Boston City Hos- 
pital, 47. 

Nurses' Home, Massachusetts 
General Hospital, 95. 

Odd Fellows Hall, 51. 

Old Burying-Ground, Dorchester, 

119, 157. 
Old Central Burying-Ground, 

24. 
Old Corner Book Store, 19. 
Old Court House, 20. 
Old Custom House, 34. 
"Old Ironsides," built, 110. 
"Old Manse, The," 153. 
Old North Church, site, 109. 
"Old Oaken Bucket," written in 

Scituate, 147. 
Old Powder House, Somerville, 

157. 
Old South Church, 6, 8, 19. 
Old State House, 33. 
Oldest Episcopal Church in New 

England, 141. 
Oldest house in Roxbury, 125. 
Oldest house in Salem, 143. 
O'Reilly, John Boyle, statue, 65. 
Otis, James, 6, 21, 32. 

1 ADDOCK mansion, site of, 22. 
Paine, Robert Treat, 21. 
Palmer, Edward, 3. 
Park Street Church, 22. 
Parker, Captain John, 150. 
Parker House, 21. 
Parker, or Great Hill, 15, 122. 
Parker, Theodore, 22. 
Parkman, George, 78. 
Parkman, Dr. Samuel, 91. 
Parkman murder, 79. 
Parley, Peter, 128. 
Parting Stone, 122, 157. 



INDEX 



181 



Pathological laboratories : Bos- 
ton City Hospital, 45; Massa- 
chusetts General Hospital, 80; 
Sears, 80. 

Pemberton Square, 29. 

People's Palace, 39. 

People's Forum, 31. 

People's Temple, 51. 

Perkins Institution for the Blind, 
78, 117. 

Phillips Brooks House at Cam- 
bridge, 136. 

Phillips, John, 21. 

Phillips, Wendell, 32. 

Phipps Street Burying-Ground, 
Charlestown, 113. 

Pickering, Timothy, house, 143. 

Pilgrim antiquities in Pilgrim 
Hall at Plymouth, 148. 

"Pilot," the, 65. 

Pitcairn, Major, place of death, 
107 ; at Concord, 151. 

Places of Amusement, 164. 

Plymouth, 1, 148. 

Plymouth Rock, 148. 

Points of Interest reached by the 
Boston Elevated Railway, 154. 

"Pops," the, 71. 

Popular Concerts, 71. 

Popular Education, 11. 

Pormont, Philemon, 3. 

Post Office, Boston, 18. 

Prescott, Colonel William, statue, 
114. 

Prescott, W. H., burial-place, 23. 

Prince School, 58. 

Prospect Hill, Somerville, 157. 

Provincial Congress, meeting 
place, 152. 

Province House, 7, 20. 

Public Bath, 39, 118. 

Public Garden, 53. 

Public Library, 60. 



Putnam, General Isaac, head- 
quarters, 135. 

Quaker Meeting-House, first, 30. 

Quarantine hospitals. Ill, 

Quincy, 1, 8, 145. 

Quincy House, 30. 

Quincy, Josiah, mayor of Boston, 
23, 32. 

Quincy, Josiah, the elder, resi- 
dence, 23 ; statue, 20. 

Quincy mansion in Quincy, 146. 

Quincy Market, 32. 

xvadcliffe College, 136. 

Railway, first, in America, 10, 145. 

Rainsford Island House of Re- 
formation and Hospital, 112. 

Randolph, 8. 

Registration, State Board of, in 
Dentistry, 99; in Medicine, 67; 
in Pharmacy, 69. 

Relief Station, Boston City Hos- 
pital, 14, 48. 

Representatives' Hall, 28. 

Restaurants, 165. 

Revere, 8. 

Revere House, 87. 

Revere, Paul, 6, 21, 69; house, 
109, 156. 

Revolution, American, 5. 

Reynolds, Dr. Edward, 100. 

Rhodes, James Ford, residence, 
55. 

Rogers Building, 59. 

Roger Williams House in Salem, 
143. 

Round Marsh, 53. 

Roxbury, 2, 120. 

Roxbury Free School, 125. 

Roxbury High Fort, 122, 157. 

Roxbury Latin School, 125. 

Royall House, Medford, 157. 

Ruggles Street Baptist Church, 51. 



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St. Andrew's Church, 86. 

St. Botolph, 7. 

St. Botolph, Church of, 60. 

St. Botolph Club, 57. 

St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 40. 

St. Luke's Home for Convales- 
cents, 122. 

St. Margaret's Hospital, 103. 

St. Mary's Infant Asylum, 120. 

St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 
Marblehead, 14-1. 

St. Monica's Home, 104. 

St. Paul's Church, 23. 

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 
39. 

St. Vincent de Paul, Sisters of 
Charity, 117, 120. 

Salem, 1, 142. 

Sanborn, Frank B., home, 152. 

Scollay Square, 13, 29. 

ScoUay, William, site of house, 30. 

Second Church, 64 ; site of first 
and second meeting-houses, 109. 

Seeing Boston, electric oars, 51 ; 
motor busses, 24. 

Sentry Hill, 2. 

Sewerage system, Boston's, 112. 

Sharon Sanatorium, 124. 

Shattuck, Dr. George C, 80. 

Shaw, Major Samuel, burial-place, 
108. 

Shaw Memorial, 26, 

Shawmut, 1. 

Siege of Boston, 7, 32, 50, 117, 
128. 

"Sign of the Blue Ball, The," 105. 

Simmons College, 68; dormitory, 
69. 

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Con- 
cord, the, 152. 

Smallpox, Hospital, 50; vaccina- 
tion for, 5 ; inoculation for, 4. 

Smith, Rev. Samuel F., birthplace, 
108. 



Soldiers' Field, 137. 

Some Boston Churches, 158. 

Some Boston Hotels, 161. 

South Bay, 2, 12, 14, 36. 

South Boston, 117. 

South Cemetery, 40. 

South Congregational Church, 58. 

South Department, Boston City 
Hospital, 16, 47. 

South End, The, 36. 

South Shore, The, 145. 

South Station, 13, 14. 

Spiritual Temple, 58. 

Spring Lane, 1, 19. 

Springs in Boston, early, 1, 9. 

Stadium, the, 136, 138. 

Stamp Act, 6. 

Stand Pipe on Fort Hill, Roxbury, 
16, 122, 157. 

Standish, Captain Myles, 1 ; bu- 
rial-place, 148 ; sword, 148. 

State Bath House, Nantasket 
Beach, 144; Revere Beach, 147. 

State Board of Health, Massa- 
chusetts, 128. 

State Board of Insanity, 126. 

State Board of Registration, in 
Dentistry, 99 ; in Medicine, 67 ; 
in Pharmacy, 69. 

State hospitals for the insane, 126, 
127. 

State House, 16, 26. 

State Library, 28. 

State Prison, 76. 

State Street, 6, 33. 

State Street Square, 33. 

Stillman Infirmary, 139. 

Stoddard house, 106. 

Storer, Dr. David Huni])hrcys, 80. 

Stoughton, William, Chief Justice, 
burial-place, 1 1 9. 

Stuart, Gilbert, 25. 

"Student Quarter," 37. 

Subway, 17. 



INDEX 



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Sullivan Square Terminal, 17, 113. 

Summer Street, 14. 

Sunnier, Charles, '22, 3^2 ; house, 

28 ; statue, 54. 
"Surriage, Agnes," novel of, 109 ; 

poem, 140. 
Swinmiing- bath, 39, 
Symphony Hall, 15, 23, 71. 

T Wharf, 35. 

Telephone, the, in Boston, 10. 

Tennis and Racquet Club, 66. 

Tewksbury, State Hospital at, 
124. 

Thatcher, Rev. Thomas, 21. 

Theatres, 163. 

"The Long Path," 26. 

Thomas Morgan Rotch, Jr., Me- 
morial Hospital for Infants, 88. 

Thoreau, Henry D., 152. 

Tileston, John, house, 107. 

Touraine Hotel, 24. 

Town Granary, site of, 22. 

Town Hill in Charlestown, 113. 

Town House, first, 33; second, 
33. 

Town Street in Roxbury, 122. 

Townsend, Dr. Solomon D., 91. 

Trade schools, 69. 

Tremont and Park streets, junc- 
tion of, a centre, 12. 

Tremont Dispensary, 74. 

Tremont House, site of, 21. 

Tremont Street, 15. 

Tremont Temple, 21. 

Trimount, 1. 

Trinity Church, 60 ; rectory, 57. 

Trinity Dispensary. 86. 

Tuberculosis, Provisions for, in 
Massachusetts, 123. 

Tufts College, Somerville, 17, 157. 

Tufts College Medical School, 15, 
73- 



Union Church, 51. 

Unitarian Building, 29. 

United States Marine Hospital, 

115. 
United States Naval Hospital, 

115. 
University Club, 55. 

V ACCINATION, 5. 

Vaccine made, 129. 
Vane, Sir Harry, 29. 
Vassal, John, 138. 
Vendome. Hotel, 56. 
Vincent Memorial Hospital, 86. 

W^ABASH, the receiving ship, 113. 
Wadsworth House, 136. 
Walker Building, 59. 
Waltham Hospital, 133. 
Waltham Training School for 

Nurses, 133. 
Warren Anatomical Museum, 78. 
Warren Chambers, 5S. 
Warren, Dr. J. Collins, 83, 91. 
Warren, Dr. J. Mason, 91 ; resi- 
dence, 23. 
Warren, Dr. John, founder of 

Harvard Medical School, 75; 

death, 77 ; residence, 20. 
Warren, Dr. John CoUins, 76, 77, 

88, 90, 128. 
Warren, Dr. Joseph, 6, 7 ; oration 

in Old South Church, 19 ; statue, 

125. 
Warren homestead, the, 125. 
Warren, Joseph, 125. 
Warren, William, 29. 
Washington Elm, 136. 
Washington, General, 8 ; portrait, 

32 ; statue, 28, 54. 
Washington Market, 49. 
Washington Street, 15. 
Washingtonian Home, 39. 
Waterhouse, Dr. Benjamin, 5, 75. 



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Watson's Hill in Plymouth, 149. 

Webster, Daniel, 10, 23, 32; ora- 
tions at Bunker Hill, 114; por- 
trait, 32 ; residence, 148; statue, 
28 ; burial-place, 148. 

Webster, Dr. John White, 78, 79, 
80. 

Wells Memorial Institute, 38. 

Wendell, Judge Ohver, 21. 

Westminster Hotel, 60. 

White's apothecary shop, 76. 

White, Peregrine, cradle, 148. 

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 11. 

Winnisimmet (Chelsea) Ferry, 
105, 140. 

Winsor, Justin, residence, 40. 

Winter Street, 14, 37. 

Winthrop, Governor John, 1, 21 ; 
first house, 34 ; statue, 56. 



Winthrop, John, Jr., 4. 
Witch House in Salem, 143. 
Witchcraft, 4, 25, 142. 
Women's Charity Club Hospital, 

123. 
Wood, WiUiam, 2. 
Wool market, Boston a, 11. 
Wright Tavern, Concord, 151. 
Writs of Assistance, 6. 
Wyman, Dr. Jeffries, 80. 
Wyman, Dr. Morrill, 80. 

Y ouNG Men's Christian Associa- 
tion, 58. 

Young Women's Christian As- 
sociation, 51. 

Youth's Companion Building, 51. 

^ACKREwsKA, Dr. Marie, 127. 




ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ADVERTISERS 



W. D. Allison Company, T30. 

American House, 210. 

Belmont Spring Water Company, 

230. 
Boston University School of Medi- 
cine, 197. 

Brown Brothers & Co., 224. 

Hotel Brunswick, 211. 

Burnham Soluble Iodine Co., 203. 

City Trust Company, 219. 

Codman & Shurtleff, Incorpo- 
rated, 203. 

Collins & Fairbanks Company, 
212. 

Continental Color and Chemical 
Co., 207. 

Dailey's Convalescent Coach, 203. 

Dennison Mfg. Co., 228. 

Detroit College of Medicine, 195. 

F. L. Dunne, 215. 

Electro-Radiation Company 
(Swett & Lewis Company), 205. 

Electro Surgical Instrument Co., 
207. 

Exhibit Committee, 188-190. 

Fairchild Bros. & Foster, 234. 

Ransom B. Fuller, 230. 

Thos. F. Galvin, 217. 

Gay & Sturgis, 220. 

W. O. Gay & Co., 219. 

Hammond Typewriter Co., 204. 

Harvard Dental School, 195. 

Harvard Medical School, 194. 

Harvey Fisk & Sons, 218. 

Herrick, 210. 

Hewins & HolHs, 213. 

Paul B. Hoeber, 209. 

Horlick's Malted Milk Company, 
inside hack cover. 

Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 
229. 



Jackson Health Resort, 199. 

Jones, McDufFee & Stratton Co., 
226. 

Joy Line, 228. 

Hotel Lenox, 211. 

Library Bureau, 227. 

Andrew J. Lloyd & Co., 202. 

Macalaster & Wiggin, 204. 

Mcintosh Battery & Optical 
Co., 208. 

McMillan Brothers, 215. 

Dr. Moody's Sanitarium, 199. 

National Union Bank, 222. 

New England Mutual Life Insur- 
ance Company, 231. 

New York Post-Graduate School 
and Hospital, 196. 

Noyes Bros., 214. 

Parker House, 211. 

Philadelphia Polychnic, 191. 

The Chas. H. PhiUips Chemical 
Co., 233. 

Pinkham & Smith Company, 202. 

Wm. H. Richardson Co., 214. 

Richardson, Wright & Co., 198. 

E. H. Rollins & Sons, 225. 
Sampson-Soch Co., 207. 
Schering & Glatz, 209. 
Sorosis Shoes, 200, 201. 

State Mutual Life Assurance Com- 
pany, 232. 
State Street Trust Co., 218. 
A. Stowell & Co., Inc., 217. 

F. H. Thomas Company, 233. 
Hotel Thorndike, 210. 
Hotel Touraine, 211. 
Tucker, Anthony & Co., 221. 
Tufts College Dental School, 193. 
Tufts College Medical School, 192. 
Victor Electric Co., 206. 
Samuel Ward Co., 230. 



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Waukesha Springs Sanitarium, 
199. 

Woman's Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 195. 



Wrenn Bros. & Co., 223. 
Wright & Ditson, 216. 
Young's Hotel, 211. 



CLASSIFIED LIST OF ADVERTISERS 



Medical and Dental Schools 

Boston University School of Med- 
icine, 197. 

Detroit College of Medicine, 195. 

Harvard Medical School, 194. 

Harvard Dental School, 195. 

New York Post-Graduate School 
and Hospital, 196. 

Philadelphia Polyclinic, 191. 

Tufts Dental School, 193. 

Tufts Medical School, 192. 

Woman's Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 195. 

Sanataria and Health Resor^ts 
Jackson Health Resort, 199. 
Dr. Moody's Sanitarium, 199. 
Waukesha Springs Sanitarium, 
199. 

Medical and Surgical Supplies 

W. D. Allison Company, 230. 

Dailey's Convalescent Coach, 203. 

Cod man & ShurtlefF, Incorpo- 
rated, 203. 

Electro-radiation Company (Swett 
& Lewis Company), 205. 

Electro Surgical Instrument Co., 
207. 

Andrew J. Lloyd & Co., 202. 

Macalaster & Wiggin, 204. 

Mcintosh Battery & Optical Co., 
20H. 

Pinkham & Smith Company, 202. 

Richardson, Wright & Co., Hos- 
pital Furniture, 19H. 



Sampson-Soch Co., 207. 

F. H. Thomas Company, 233. 

Victor Electric Co., 206. 

Dings, Medicines, Foods c^' 

Waters 
Belmont Spring Water Company, 

230. 
Burnham Soluble Iodine Co., 203. 
Continental Color and Chemical 

Co., 207. 
Fairchild Bros. & Foster, 234. 
Horlick's Malted Milk Company, 

inside hack cover. 
The Chas. H. Phillips Chemical 

Co., 233. 
Schering & Glatz, 209. 

Hotels 

American House, 210. 
Hotel Brunswick, 211. 
Hotel Lenox, 211. 
Parker House, 211. 
Hotel Thorndike, 210. 
Hotel Touraine, 211. 
Young's Hotel, 211. 

Bankers and Brokers 
Brown Brothers & Co., 224. 
City Trust Company, 219. 
Harvey Fisk & Sons, 2 IS. 
W. O. Gay & Co., 219. 
Gay & Sturgis, 220. 
National Union Bank, 222. 
E. H. Rollins & Sons, 225. 
State Street Trust Co., 21H. 



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LIST OF ADVERTISERS 



Tucker, Anthony & Co., 221. 
Wrenn Bros. & Co., 223. 

Fiirnuhings, Athletic Goods, Sfc. 
Collins & Fairbanks Company, 

212. 
F. L. Dunne, 215. 
Hewins & Mollis, 213. 
McMillan Brothers, 215. 
Noyes Bros., 214. 
Wm. H. Richardson Co., 214. 
Sorosis Shoes, 200, 201. 
Wright & Ditson, 216. 

Insurance 

Ransom B. Fuller, 230. 

New England Mutual Life In- 
surance Company, 231. 

State Mutual Life Assurance 
Company, 232. 



Publishers, Stationers, Sfc. 
Dennison Mfg. Co., 228. 
Paul B. Hoeber, 209. 
Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 

229. 
Library Bureau, 227. 
Samuel Ward Co., 230. 

Miscellaneous 

Exhibit Committee, 188-190. 

Thos. F. Galvin, 217. 

Hammond Typewriter Co., 204. 

Herrick, 210. 

Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Co., 

226. 
Joy Line, 228. 
A. Stowell & Co., Inc., 217. 



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Modern Medicine Co. 



J. B. Lippincott 
Arlington Chemical Co. 
I' Armour & Co. 
\ Becton Dickinson & Co. 
W. T. Keener & Co. 
Boston Medical and Surgical 

Journal 
Old Corner Book Store, Inc. 
The Journal of Abnormal 

Psychology 
Phillips Chemical Co. 
F. H. Thomas Co. 
Bausch & Lomb 
Fairchild Bros. & Foster 
J. Q. Adams Co. 
Randall Faichney Co. 
Randall Faichney Co. 
J. Emory Clapp 
Wm. Wood & Co. 
Sampson-Soch Co. 
Andrew J. Lloyd Co. 
Schieffelin & Co. 
H. K. Wampole & Co. 
Victor Electric Co. 

W. D. AUison 



[ Boston Vibrator Co. 
\ Scanlan Morris Co. 

Electro-Radiation Co. 

Wm. Wood & Co. 

F. A. Davis Co. 

Campbell Bros. 



Spaces 

( Fisk & Arno 

30 i Electro Surgical Instrument 

( Co. 

/ American Oxygen Associa- 

31 J tion 

[ E. DeTrey & Sons 

32 Malt Diastase Co. 

33 Shelton Electric Co. 

34 Burnham's Soluble Iodine 

35 1 

I Grlobe Optical Co. 

, Summer Courses, Harvard 
37 



Medical School 

38 Surgeons & Physicians Sup- 

ply Co. 

39 U. S. Oxygen Co. 

40 Tailby Nason Co. 

41 The Trommer Co. 
42 

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44 H. P. Engeln Co. 

45 International Instrument Co. 
46 

47 Globe Manufacturing Co. 

48 R. W. Gardner 
J Rebman Co. 

\ Sapona Co. 
50 Lea Bros. & Co. 

^IJF.S.BetzCo. 

53 F. A. Hardy & Co. 

54 W. Scheidel Coil Co. 

55 D. Appleton & Co. 

56 Baker Electric Co. 

57 E. B. Meyrowitz 

58 Heinze Electric Co. 
f R. V. Wagner Co. 
\ B. B. Apparatus Co. 

60 James G. Biddle 



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LIST OF EXHIBITORS 
BASEMENT 

C. W. Dailey, Ambulance F. E. Randall, Motors 

Londonderry Lithia Water J. R. Bradford, Motors 

Ballardvale Lithia Water Nemasket Spring 

Curtis Hawkins Co., Motors Harry Fosdick Co., Motors 

C. H. Larson, Motors Henderson Bros., Carriages and 

Boston Filter Co. Motor 



PHILADELPHIA POLYCLINIC 



AND COLLEGE FOR GRADUATES IN MEDICINE 

Lombard Street, above Eighteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
FOUNDED 1882 

POSTGRADUATE Courses in all Departments of Medicine and 
Surgery, including Diseases of the Eye, Ear, and Throat and Nose. 
The teaching material is drawn from the out-patient department, 
which has an average daily attendance of more than 300 patients, and 
from the wards of the Polyclinic Hospital. 

Laboratory courses in General and Special Pathology and Histology, 
and in Clinical Pathology. Classes in Anatomy and in General and Spe- 
cial Operative Surgery. 

FACULTY OF THE PHILADELPHIA POLYCLINIC 

PROFESSORS 



Medicine 

Augustus A. Eshner, M.D. 
David Riesman, M.D. 
R. Max Goepp, M.D. 

Stomach and Intestine 

Joseph Sailer, M.D. 

Pediatrics 

Samuel McC. Hamill, M.D. 

James H. McKee, M.D. 

Neurology 

William G. Spiller, M.D. 

Dermatology 

Jay F. Schamberg 

Obstetrics 

Edward P. Davis, M.D. 

Anatomy 

Addinell Hewson, M.D. 

Surgery 

John B. Roberts, M.D. 

Lewis W. Steinbach, M.D. 

Max J. Stern, M.D. 

Francis T. Stewart, M.D. 

Orthopedics 

James K. Young, M.D. 



Genito-Urinary 

Hilary M. Christian, M.D. 

Proctology 

Lewis H. Adler, Jr., M.D. 

Gynecology 

B. F. Baer, M.D. 

J. Montgomery Baldy, M.D. 

Harris A. Slocum, M.D. 

Diseases of the Eye 
T. B. Schneideman, M.D. 
James Thorington, M.D. 
William C. Posey, M.D. 
William M. Sweet, M.D. 

Diseases of the Ear 
Francis R. Packard, M.D. 
George C. Stout, M.D. 

Throat and Nose 
Arthur W. Watson, M.D. 
Walter J. Freeman, M.D. 
Eugene L. Vansant, M.D. 
Joseph S. Gibb, M.D. 

Defects of Speech 

G. Hudson Makuen, M.D. 



consui,tants 

George E. deSchweinitz, M.D. W. W. Keen, M.D 



John B. Deaver, M.D. 



EMERITUS PROFESSORS 
J. Solis-Cohen, M.D. 
C. B. Nancrede, M.D. 
George C. Harlan, M.D. 
J. Henry C. Simes, M.D. 
Arthur Van Harlingen, M.D. 
H. Augustus Wilson, M.D. 
Edward Jackson, M.D. 
Henry Lcffmann, M.D. 
Charles K. Mills. M.D. 
Samuel D. Risley, M.D. 
T. S. K. Morton, M.D. 
Howard F. Hansell, M.D. 

Communications shoidd be 



ASSOCIATES 
Kate W. Baldwin. M.D.. Throat and Nose 
Wendell Reber, M.D., Diseases of the Eye 
Morris B. Miller, M.D., Surgery 
W. A. N. Dorland, M.D., Gynecology 
Theodore A. F.rck. M.D., Gynecology 
Walter Roberts, M.D., Diseases of the Ear 
John A. Hearst, M.D.. Throat and Nose 
Charles F. Mitchell. M.D.. Surgery 
Rose Hirsclilcr. M.D., Dermatology 
Walton (". Swindells. M.D., Diseases of the Eye 
E. Lindaiicr, M.D., Medicine 
T. H. Wei.senburg, M.D., Neurology 

addressed to r. max goepp, m.d., dean 

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TUFTS COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL 
41 6 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Mass. 



D.D. 



Frederick W. Hamilton, A.M 

President 
Harold Williams, M.D., LL.D., Dean 

and Professor of Fractice of Medicine 
Frederic M. Briggs, M.l)., Secretary 

and Professor of CUnical Surgery 
Charles P. Thayer, A.M., M.D. 

Professor of Anatomy, Emeritus 
Henry W. Dudley, A.M., M.D. 

Professor oi Pathology, Emeritus 
Jolni L. Hildreth, M.D., LL.D. 

Professor of Clinical Medicine, Emeritus 
Ernest \V. Cushiiig, M.D., LL.D., Professor 

of Abdoiiiiiuil Surgery and Gynecology 
Henry J. Barnes. M.D. 

Professor of Hnuiene 
Edward (). Otis. M.D., Professor of 

Piilmoiuirt/ Diseases and Cliviatology 
Charles A. Pitkin, Ph.D. 

Professor of General Chemistry 
Morton Prince, M.D., Professor of 

Dise((ses of the Xcrrous System 
Henry B. Chandler. M.D. 

Professor of Ophtlialmology 
James S. Howe, M.D. 

Professor of Dermatology 
Edward M. Plummer, M.D. 

Professor of Otology 
Frank (i. Wlieatlcy, M.D., Professor of 

Materia Medica and Therapeutics 
Edward B. Lane, M.D. 

Professor of Mental Diseases 
George H. Washburn, M.D. 

Professor of Obstetrics 



FACULTY 

Arthur E. Austin, M.D. 

Professor of Medical Chemistry 
Horace D. Arnold, M.D. 

Professor of Clinical Medicine 
George A. Bates, M.S. 

Professor of Histology 
George W. Kaan, M.D. 

Professor of Clinical Gynecology 
William E. Chenery, M.D. 

Professor of Lan/nr/olof/if 
George V. N. Dearborn, .M.D., Ph.D. 

Professor of Fhysiologg 
Timotliy Leary, M.D., Professor of 

Faiholof/t/ and BactericjloQU 
H. Warren "White, M.D., Assistant 

Professor of Theory and Practice 
Gardner W. Allen, M.D., Professor 

of Genito-Urinarif Surgery 
How-ard S. Dearing. M.D.. Assistant 

Professor of Clinical Medicine 
John L. Ames, M.D.. Assistant 

Professor of r//„/rr// MnlH-ine 
E. Channing Stowell. M.I)., Assistant 

Professor of Children's Diseases 
Eugene Thayer, A.M., M.D. 

Demonstrator of Anatomy 
Charles F. Painter, M.D., Assistant 

Professor of Orthopedic Surgery 
Frank L. D. Rust, M.D. 

Associate Professor of Ophthcdmology 
Harry PL Germain, M.D. 

Assistant Professor of Anatomy 



Lecturer in Mental Diseases 

Walter E. Fernald, M.D. 
Instructors in Clinical Medicine 

John N. Coolidgt-, M.D. 

Richard F. Cliase. ALD. 
Assistants in CUnical Medicine 

William E. Fay, M.D. 

Charles H. Winn, M.D. 

Elmond A. Burnham, M.D. 

Robert M. Merrick, M.D. 

Artliur W. Fairbanks, M.D. 

Henry F. R. Watts, M.D. 

John P. Treanor, M.D. 

Frederick W. Stetson, M.D. 

Thomas J. ()-Hricii, .M.D. 

Joscpli II. .Saunders, M.D. 
Instructors in Clinical Surgery 

Edward A. I Vase, M.D. 

Francis I). Donogliue. M.D. 

Fretleric W. Pearl. M.D. 

Luther G. Paul. M.D. 

Theodori'C. Becbe. Jr., M.D. 
Demonstrator of Snriiic(d Technique 

Rich:ird F. OXcil. .M.D. 
Instructor in Srurohxig 

John J. Thomas. M.l')". 
Instructor in Gcniio Crinary Surgerg 

Cliarii's I). Wliitncy. M.D. 
Instructor in Elect ro-Thcrapeutics 

Frederick F. Strong, M.D. 
Assistant Demonstrators of Anato)ny 

William G. Adams, M.D. 

John W. Lane, M.D. 

Walter F. Nolen, M.D. 

John I). Clark, M.D. 

Frank E. Ilaskins, M.D. 

Rol>ert E. Andrews, M.D. 



OTHER INSTRUCTORS 

Instructors in Obstetrics 

Theodore C. Erb, M.D. 

John S. May, M.D. 

James W. Hinckley. M.D. 
Instructors in Futliologg 

Charles D. Knowlton. M.D. 

O. Cushing-Leary, M.D. 
Assistants in Pathology 

Edison W. Brown. M.D. 

Leon S. Medalia, M.D. 
Instructors in Clinical Ggnecology 

Edward L. Twonibly, M.D. 

CliarlesB. Darling, M.D. 

W. Herbert Grant. M.D. 

Edwin B. Neilson, M.D. 
Instructor in (Innccolocni 

Elizal)eth A. Kilcy. M.D. 
Instructor in Hcnialolouu 

Ralph C. Larral)ec, M.D. 
Assistants in Ihinotohnni 

Clarence H. Staples, .M.D. 

Laurence W. Strong, M.D. 
Instructors in Mcdii-al Chemist ni 

Frederick S. lloliis. Pii.D. 

Edward E. riiorpc, M.D. 
Instructor in Theorii and Practice 

Robert W. Hastings. M.D. 
Instructor in Hectal Diseases 

Frank P. Williams, M.D. 
Instructors in Djdithalmology 

El wood r. East on, M.D. 

Henry C. Parker. M.D. 
Instructor in Histologi/ 

Guy .M. WinsU.w. A.B., Ph.D. 
Assistants in Ototogii 

Leon E. White. M.D. 

Francis J. Weller, M.D. 

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Tufts College Medical School, Other Instructors (continued) 



Assistant in Orthopedics 
Arthur T. Legg, M.D. 



Instructor in Physiology 

Sydney C. Hardwiok, M.D. 
Assistant in Diseases of Children 

William R. P. Emerson, M.D. 

The Term opens September 26, 1906, at the new building, 416 Huntington Avenue, and con- 
tinues eight months. The school is co-educational. It offers a four-year graded course. In- 
struction IS by Lectures, Recitations. Laboratory Work and Practical Demonstrations and 
Operations. The chnical facilities are excellent. The Laboratories are unsuri)assc(l, and are 
open throughout the year for clinical and research work. For information in regard to Re- 
quirements, Entrance Examinations, Fees, or for a Catalogue, address 

FREDERIC M. BRIGGS, M.D., Secretary 
Tufts College Medical School, Boston, Mass. 



TUFTS COLLEGE DENTAL SCHOOL 
41 6 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Mass. 



Frederick W. Hamilton, A.M., D.D. 

President 
Harold Williams, M.D., LL.D., Dean 

and Professor of Theory and Practice 
Frederic M. Briggs, M.D., Secretary 

and Professor of Clinical Surgery 
Charles P. Thayer, A.M., M.D. 

Professor of Anatomy, Emeritus 
Henry J. Barnes. ^Ll). 

Professor of Hiiciiene 
Charles A. Pitkin, Ph.D. 

Professor of General Chemistry 
Edward W. Branigan, A.M., D.D.S. 

Professor of Clinical Dentistry 
Frank G. Wheatley. M.D., Professor of 

Materia Medica and Therapeutics 
Joseph K. Knight, D.D.S. 

Professor of Prosthodontia 



FACULTY 

George A. Bates, M.Sc, D.M.D. 

Professor of Histology 
Frederick M. Hemenway, D.D.S. 

Professor of Prosthetic Dentistry 
William E. Chenery, M.D., Professor of 

Diseases of the Nose and Throat 
Timothy Leary, M.D., Professor of 

Pathology and Bacteriology 
Eugene Thayer, M.D. 

Demonstrator of Anatomy 
George V. N. Dearborn, M.D., Ph. D. 

Professor of Plivsiology 
Byron H. Strout, D.D.S., Assistant 

Professor of Operative Technics 
Walter I. Brigham, D.M.D., Assistant 

Professor of Op)erative Dentistry 
Harry H. Germain, M.D. 

Assistant Professor of Anatomy 



OTHER INSTRUCTORS 

Instructors in Prosthetic Dentistry 

Fred C. Merrill, D.D.S. 

George L. Marshall. D.D.S. 

Walter G. Bridge, D.M.D. 
Instructor in Porcelain Work 

Knut J. Luttropp, D.D.S. 
Lecturer on Orthodontia 

George T. Baker, D.D.S. 
Instructors in Orthodontia 

Dana J. Edmunds, D.D.S. 

Alfred P. Rogers, D.D.S. 
Instructor in Histology 

Guy M. Winslow, A.B., Ph.D. 
Assistant Demonstrators in Anatomy 

Frederic W. Pearl, M.D. 

Theodore C. Beebe, Jr., M.D. 

William G. Adams, M.D. 

John D. Clark, M.D. 

Luther G. Paul, M.D. 

John W. Lane, M.D. 

Arthur T. Legg. M.D. 

Walter F. Nolen, M.D. 

Frank E. Haskins, M.D. 

Robert E. Andrews, M.D. 
Instructor in Pliysiolor/i/ 

Sydney C. Hard wick, M.D. 



Instructors in Clinical Dentistry 

Edgar O. Kinsman, D.M.D. 

Henry M. Hills, D.D.S. 

William Rice, D.M.D. 

William P. Houston, D.M.D. 

Walter F. Kenyon, D.D.S. 

Henry H. Piper, D.M.D. 

John W. Forbes, D.M.D. 

Joseph L. C. Taylor, D.D.S. 

William M. Flynn, D.M.D. 

John S. Eaton, D.D.S. 

Burleigh C. Gilbert, D.D.S. 

Ervin A. Johnson, D.M.D. 

Frederick B. Stevens, D.D.S. 

Henry S. Robinson, D.D.S. 

Irving J. Wetherbee, D.M.D. 

Varney A. Kelley, D.M.D. 

Curtis W. Farrington, D.M.D. 

James P. Lockhart, D.M.D. 

Sidney B. Sargent, D.M.D. 

Carey R. Chester, D.M.D. 

Ivan A. T. Centcrvall, D.M.D. 
Instructors in Pafliologi/ 

Charles D. Knowlton.M.D. 

O. Cushing-r>eary, M.D. 
Assistants in Pathology 

Edison W. Brown, M.D. 

Leon S. Medalia, M.D. 

The next term opens September 26. 1906, and continues eight months. The school is co- 
educational. It offers a tiuce-ycar graded course. 
The clinical and laboratory facilities are unsurpassed. 
For further information or for a Catalogue, address 

FREDERIC M. BRIGGS, M.D., Secretary 
Tlfts College Dental School, Boston, Mass. 
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A DEPARTMENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 

THIS school offers to students holding a degree in 
letters or science, or who have passed the entrance 
examination to Harvard College or any other reputable 
college of letters, a graded course of three years with 
modern laboratory instruction and special facilities for ac- 
quiring operative technique. Large clinics. Thirty-eighth 
year begins September 27, 1906. Send for announcement. 

Dr. EUGENE H. SMITH, Dean 

283 Dartviouth Street^ Boston, Mass. 

Woman's Medical College 

^^ OF PENNSYLVANIA ^«- 

57th Annual Session. Thorough course. Four years. Exceptional 
facilities for Laboratory and Bedside Instruction. Post-graduate 
course in Operative Gynaecology in the spring; post-graduate course 
in Obstetrics in the summer months. Full particulars in catalogue. 

CLARA MARSHALL, M.D., Dean, Box 500 
21st St. and N. College Ave., Philadelphia, Pa, 

DETROIT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE : DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE 

THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL SESSION will open September 19, 1906, and continue 
ei^lit months. The entire course embraces four yearly sessions. 
A high-school education or its equivalent is required for admission. Students holding cre- 
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given credit for work done. 
THE SPECIAL ADVANTAGES OFFERED 

are new buildings with separate class rooms and laboratories ; modern equipment ; a care- 
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desirable hospital appointments for both students and graduates. 
CLINICAL INSTRUCTION 

is given daily in Saint Mary's and Harper Hospitals, in vSaint Mary's Hospital Free Dispen- 
sary, Harper Hospital Polyclinic and Harper Hospital Contagious Disease Building. Ad- 
vanced students are supplied with obstetrical cases in the House of Providence and in the 
Woman's Hospital. Access is had also to Saint Luke's and the Children's Free Hospitals. 

H. O. WALKER, M.D., Sfcretarv, DETROIT, MICH. 

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SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL 

UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 
Second Avenue and Twentieth Street, Neiv Yoi^k 



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and the first one in the world where complete Post- 
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The methods of instruction of this School are of the most thorough 
and advanced kind. The personal instruction is so exact and com- 
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may go away with the capacity to make examinations and carry on 
the treatment, operative or otherwise, that has been taught them. 
The Hospital, which is under the same roof, contains two hundred 
and sixteen beds, and the material is used for the instruction of the 
practitioners attending the courses. A Special Course in Tubercu- 
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is of the best order. There are courses in Electro-Radio Therapeu- 
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while in general ]\Iedicine and Surgery the clinical instruction is 
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For further part}(id(n:s\ ((ddrcss 

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1). 15. St. John Roosa, M.l)., l.L.l)., President 



Boston University School of Medicine 

EAST CONCORD STREET, BOSTON 




"The International Jury of Awards has conferred a gold medal upon 
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For Information and Cata- ^^^"^ logue apply to Frank C. 
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Special attention to the scientific administration of Water, Electricity, Massage, Swedish 
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IF 
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This Sorosis is made in variety of leathers^ both 
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and can be obtained at any of the following So- 
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Cleveland, 177 Euclid Ave. 
Milwaukee, 93 Wisconshi St. 
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Baltimore, 19 Lexington St., W. 
Washington, 1213 F St. 

Boston, 20 Temple Place and 176 Boylston St. Denver, 626 16th St. 
Chicago, 3U Washington St. Hartford, 9 US Main St. 

Cincinnati, 106 West Seventh St. Providence, The Shepard Company 

Detroit, Netccomb-Endicott Co. St. Louis, Scruggs, Vandervoort <& Barney 

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§ORQSI§ 

SHOES 

Sorosis First Aid Arch Support 




THE Sorosis Shoe manu- 
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and patented a simple but we 
think you will consider a very 
effective device for support- 
ing the arch^ which they have 
termed the " Sorosis First Aid 
Arch Supports 

This appliance you will no- 
tice consists of a felt pad held 
in proper position by a pocket 

in the support which fits snugly about the heel and over the instep as 
shown in the illustration. 

A further setting forth of its merits we deem unnecessary to the 
professional readers of this periodical, but we think the possibility of 
preventing further trouble is obvious when this support is used where 
the first symptoms of breaking down of the arch appears. 

As experts you might justly claim this support would not be effec- 
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U 
We shall be pleased to explain it more fully to all interested at our 
Sorosis Store, 176 Boylston Street. 

It is made for men, women and children and can be obtained at any 
Sorosis Store or Department (see list on preceding page), or may be or- 
dered direct from the manufacturers 

A. E. LITTLE & CO., LYNN, MASS. 

Price, $1.60 per pair 
Special plaices to Physicians and Surgeons 

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Prescription Ojiticians 
Photographic Siijijilies 

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MANUFACTURERS of high-grade Lenses as prescribed by 
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to the accurate adjustment of Spectacles and Eyeglasses. Our work 
is strictly first-class and our prices very moderate. 

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^^ Opticians ^^ 

Display at this Exhibition 

Kryptok Integral Bifocal Lenses 

Hyperholk Lenses Lens Lock Eyeglasses 

Automobile goggles Clinical and other Thermometers 

Hygrodeiks (Humidity testers) 

Zeiss Stereo-Binocula rs 

Samples of Holmgren\s Worsted Tests 

For the Detection (yf Color Blindness 

And Other Things of hderest 

Visiting physic-ians are cordially invited to avail of our facilities for repairing 
or adjusting their glasses. To those who may be interested our workshops are 
open to inspection, and the processes of making Toric and Kryptok Lenses may 
be seen. 

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Dailey's Convalescent Coach 

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This ambulance is specially made to meet the above requirements, and is in every way 
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est prices, prompt delivery being guaranteed. Yours very truly, 

Paul B, Hoeber 
69 East 59th Street, New York City 

READING ROOM FOR PHYSICIANS 

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RTHE NEW AMERICAN HOUSE 
ATHSKELLER 

The Most Artistic and Most Famous D'ui'mp' Place in Boston 



Cuisine 
Perfect 



Good 
Music 




Special 

Dishes 



Good 
Cheer 



There is no other plat e in Boston Just like this — indeed tliere is no- 
thing Just like it in the country. It has an atmosphere of rejined 
Bohemmnism that ?nakes its ear client food taste cdl the better. 

'TIS A PLEASURE TO DINE HERE 



Herrick 



TICKETS 

All Theatres 

T hones 

2329^ 2330 
and 2331 



Back Bay 



HOTET. THORNDIKE 

BOYLSTON ST. [OPJ'. I'l BLIC GAllDKX] 

BOSTON, MASS. 

Rooms ^lf)() per dinj and up 

G. A. k J. L. Da.mox, riu)i- 

YE OLDR FAGLISH 

DINING-ROOM 

( )ne of Boston's Show Places 



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Hotel Brunswick 

BOSTON 



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Ku 1 \)pca n an d A )u ci ^ica n Phi ?t s 
Amos Barnes, Proprietor; Herbert H. Barnes, Manager 



Hotel Lenox 

EUROPEAN PLAN 

CHARLES A. GLEASON, MGll. 



Hotel Touraine 

Parker House 

Young's Hotel 



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Eiiiojiean Plan 



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Collins & Fairbanks 
Company 

HATS AND FURS 

381-383 WASHINGTON STREET 

DIRECTLY OPPOSITE FRANKLIN STREET 

BOSTON 



Hunting, Shooting, Boating & Tourists' 

Hats and Caps 

Ladies' Hats, Opera Folding Hats 

Livery Hats and Cockades 

Ladies' Riding Hats 

Gold and Silver Mounted Umbrellas 

Canes, Crops and Whips 



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FRIENDS OF THE 

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

AND OF THIS GUIDE-BOOK 

HAVE SUBSCRIBED MONEY FOR 

TWO AND ONE HALF PAGES OF ADVERTISEMENTS 



HEWINS & HOLLIS 
Mens Furnishing Goods 

4 Hamilton Place, Boston 



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It is sometimes mighty in- 
convenient to wait two weeks 
to have a suit made. 

Yet to men accustomed to 
correct clothes the ordinary 
clothing store suit is impos- 
sible. 

An opportune moment to 
get acquainted with us. 

Aljred Benjamin d^ Co.\s Clothes Eocdusively 

$20 to $40 

THE WM. H. RICHARDSON CO. 

388 WASHINGTON STREET 




Smart Shirts 

OF ENGLISH AND 
FRENCH FLANNEL 

INDISPENSABLE EOU WEAK EN UOVTE 

l*\)r the liailwav ( ari-iage 

Vov SteanuT 'I'ravcliiio- 

I' or Golfing, Tennis, Hunting, Fishing 

and I'ield S})orts 

With White F/a/nic/ Colhtr or to Match (Umds 

$3.50 TO 19.50 EACH 



^a Washington and 

.^/^y;?j^X Summer Streets 



BosloD, U.S.A- 



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F. L. Dunne 

BOSTON 

Transcript Building 
and 

NEW YORK 

ir \V. :i(}th street 

FINE CLOTHES 



McMillan Brothers 

TAILORS 



Paddock Building, 101 Tremont Street 
BOSTON 



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Doctors, Attention! 

OUR best friends are found among 
the medical fraternity who recog- 
nize the work we are doing in aid of 
humanity by assisting in building up 
young constitutions by athletic sports 
and physical culture in order that the 
people of this great country may be- 
come strong, healtluj and active men and 
women. A sound mind in a sound body 
is what is desired, and the leading doc- 
tors know we have the best apparatus 
for physical development — the best 
rackets, bats, balls, golf clubs, the pro- 
per clothing, in fact everything neces- 
sary for athletic sports and pastimes. 
Bandages of all kinds to make the weak 
joints strong. Wq have specialists in 
every department who are (qualified to 
give advice and aid in selecting the pro- 
per article no matter what it may be. 

Doctors ! 

Be sure to call at our store, get a cata- 
logue, and keep it in your library. You 
will find it useful. 

A\ RIGHT ik DITSON 

{HJ^ Washington St., Boston 

84- Wabash Ave., Chicago 

Cambridge, Mass., c^- Providence, R. I. 



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NEW YORK LONDON PARIS 

Tbos. F. Galvin 

Roses 

121 TREMONT STREET CONSERVATORIES 

Opposite Park St. Chwch Boylston S^ Fairjield Sts., Bad: Baij 

OXFORD 1737 n.B. 2323 






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State Street Trust Co. 

38 STATE STREET 

Back Bay Branch 
COR. Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street 

Interest credited monthly on balances of $300 and over 



SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES AND STORAGE VAULTS 
AT THE BRANCH OFFICE 



Harvey Fisk & Sons 

NEW YORK : 62 CEDAR STREET 
BOSTON : S5 CONGRESS STREET 

Bankers and Dealers 

In United States Government, State, Municipal, 
Railroad, and other Conservative Investment Securities 

Orders J or the purchase and sale ojall /legoliah/e securities executed promptli/ 



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City Trust Company 

Capital and Surplus $2,000,000 

Transacts a General Trust and Bankin<>: Business 

Acts as Executor, Trustee and Financial Agent 

50 STATE STREET, BOSTON 

BUNKER HILL BRANCH, CITY SQUARE 
CHARLESTOWN 

Deposits Received and Cheeks Cashed at EHhe?' Office 

Capital Stock -f 1,000,000.00 

Surplus 1,000,000.00 

Deposits 15,000,000.00 

OFFICERS 

Philip Stockton, Presideut Charles R. Lawrence, Manager 
Charles Francis Adams 2d, J^.-Prcs. Bunker Hill Branch 

Arthur Adams, J.-Pres. Charles P. ]5Unn, Jr., Asst. Treas. 

George W. Grant, Treasurer Fred K. Brown, Asst. Treas. 

George S. Mumford, Secretary P. 1). Haughton, Asst. Sccretarij 

SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS 



W. 0. Gay & Co. 

M CONGRESS STREET 

Commercial Paper and Collateral Ijoans 

Eostoii • New York • Philadelphia 
Chicago • St. l^ouis 



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Gay & Sturgis 

BANKERS AND BROKERS 
50 CONGRESS STREET 

MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON STOCK EXCHANGE 



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Tucker, Anthony & Co. 

BANKERS AND BROKERS 

53 STATE STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 

Memhers Boston and New Yoi^k Stock Exchanges 



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THE 

NATIONAL UNION BANK 

No. 40 STATE STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 



Capital $1,000,000.00 

Surplus 750,000.00 

Undivided Profit 219,930.71 



Chartered as a State Bank 1792 

Chartered as a National Bank 1865 

RESOURCES LIABILITIES 

Loans and Discounts $5,894,853.06 Capital $1,000,000.00 
United States Bonds 100,000.00 Surplus and Undi- 

Stocks and Securities 74,476.00 vided Profits 969,930.71 

Due from Banks 1,593,401.22 Circulation 99,000.00 

Cash and Exchanges 2,315,005.21 Dividends 8,929.50 

Reserved for Taxes 30,000.00 

Deposits 7,869,875.28 

19,977,735.49 $9,977,735.49 

OFFICERS 

Henry S. Grew, 2d President 

Theophilus Parsons Vice-President 

Georcje H. Perkins Cashier 

W. S. B. Stevens Assistant Cashier 

DIRECTORS 

George Dexter James R. Hooper 

Samuel B. Dana Francis W. Fakyan 

Nathaniel H. Emmons Philip Dexter 

Amoky a. Lawrence Henry S. Grew, 2d 

Theophilus Parsons Philip Y. DeNormandie 

William Farnsworth Ralph B. AVilliams 

A ceo lift ts Solk itcd 

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WRENN BROS. & CO. 

Stock Brokers 

BOSTON OFFICE, 84 State St. 

NEW YORK OFFICE, 24 Buoad St. 

PHILADELPHIA OFFICE, Dkexel Buildinc; 



Private wires between Offices and to principal 
Western Cities 



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Brown Brothers & Co. 

60 STATE STREET 

Members Boston, New York and Philadelphia 
Stock Exchanges 

Investment Securities 
Foreign Exchange 

Letters of Credit 

ON 

Brown, Shipley & Co., London 



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A Financial Courtship 

OR 

A Flea Jot Conservative 
Investments 

\ 

By Frank W. Rollins 

" TT ON. Frank W. Rollins, ex-Governor of New Hampshire, has 
A X just issued from his banking house of E. H. Rollins & Sons, 
of Boston, a brochure that ought to be in the hands of every woman. 
It is called 'A Financial Courtship,"* and as the author, Governor 
Rollins himself, states in his preface, was originally written at the 
suggestion of his stenographer, who spoke of the need that women 
have for a simple, concise book that will tell them all about in- 
vestments. 

"Governor Rollins puts his information in the form of a story, 
thus making it interesting reading. But, in addition, his facts and 
suggestions are clear-cut and eminently useful. He explains the 
meaning of a mortgage, a bond, corporation stock, municipal in- 
vestments. Government bonds and so on through the list of con- 
servative investments. Any woman who has money to invest or who 
is likely to inherit money which she will be called upon to invest 
will be well guided by this book. In fact, it would serve admirably 
as a text-book for young people of both sexes." Boston Journal. 
Copies of the above hook zvill be furnished ivithout cost on application to 

E. H. ROLLINS h SONS 

21 Milk St., Boston 

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Historical Plates 

Seventy-three views on dessert plates (9-inch) engraved for us by 
Wedgwood from picturesque etchings, in genuine old blue Wedgwood, 
with foliage border; souvenirs of Boston and other historical points; 
the views in part are : 

The Public Library, Boston 
Trinity Church, Boston 
Mount Vernon, home of Washington 
Independence Hall, Philadelphia 
Elnucood, home of James Russell Low- 
ell 
Old North Church, Boston 
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor 
Birthplace of Whittier 
Priscilla and John Alden 
Longfellow's House, Cambridge, Mass. 
The Battle on Lexington Common 
The Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Mass. 
George Washington (portrait) 
Abraham Lincoln (portrait) 
Theodore Roosevelt (portrait) 
Capitol, Washington, D. C. 
Faneuil Hall 
Harvard College Gate 

The price is six dollars per dozen, or fifty cents each. A single plate 
will be mailed in a safety mailing box, prejmid to any post-office in the 
United States, on receipt of 75 cents, P. O. order or stamps. A booklet 
of half-tone euts of the series will be mailed free on request. Visitors will 
find in our Art Pottery Rooms — Dinner Set Department — Cut Glass 
Department — Lamp Department — Stock Pattern Department — and 
on the Main Floor extensive exhibits. 

In our Hotel and Chib Department are extensive lines, adapted to Hotels, Clubs, 
Yachts, Boarding Houses, Hospitals, Public Institutions and Families. 

Full Outfits or Matc'hings, from the ordinary, through the medium eost up to 
the costly decorated banquet services, in stock ready for immediate delivery. 

Stock patterns of the sev(Tal grades to replenish matchin^s from. 

Services of cliina and glass made to order with crest, monogram, &c., in either 
foreign or domestic ware, and we are not undersold on equal ware if we know it. 
Inspection and comparison invited. 




Jones, McDufFee k Stratton Co. 

Fine China, Glass and Lamps, Wholesale and Retail 

(Ten Floous) 

.S8 Franklin Street, cor. Ilawley 

Near Jlasl/i/igfon and Sirnnncr streets 

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JTI Throughout the convention 

Jil we shall have on exhibition at our 
salesroom, working outfits of card and fil- 
ing systems for physicians and for public 
and private hospitals. 

These records have reduced the keep- 
ing of physicians 'and hospital records and 
accounts to the last point of simplicity 
and accuracy. 

They cut in two the time and labor 
required by book records. 

You are invited to see them. 

Library Bureau 

CARD AND FILING SYSTEMS 

43 Federal Street, off Post Office Square 



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EVERY PHYSICIAN SHOULD POSSESS 

A Dennison Handy Box 

BECAUSE 

It contains in condensed Jor?n so many 
conveniences, the contents of our Xo. 60 
f price, $.75 J being as follows : 

Baggage, Marking and Key Tags, Small 
Strung Tags, Postal Labels, Bottle Labels, 
Transparent Tape, Suspension Rings, Pa- 
tent Clips, Rubber Bands, Twine, Glue in 
Patent Tube. 

We have the testimoiii/ of main/ frst-rlass 
practitioners that the Denxison Handy Box 
is indispensable. 

Our store is replete with similar attractive 
articles. You are invited to inspect them. 

DENNISON MFG. CO., 26 Franklin Street, Boston 

SIDE TRIPS TO NEW YORK VIA JOY LIXE 

EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 5 p.m. A 24^HOUR OCEAN TRIP 





Every week-day via Providence at 5.03 p.m., arriving in New York 

the following morning. 

Ask for information. 'Phone: Main 232 J^ 

CITY TICKI:T office corner STATE AND WASHINGTON STS. 

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I'wo New Books by William Osier 



COUNSELS AND IDEALS 
FROM HIS WRITINGS 

" This little book is worth getting and worth 
reading. We commend it most heartily to 
doctors and medical students in the first 
place, but scarcely less to the intelligent 
laity." Westminster Gazette. $1.25, 7iet. 
Postpaid, $1.36. 



SCIENCE AND 
IMMORTALITY 

" We can recommend this volume not only 
for its literary charm, but also for the 
thoughtful and suggestive discussion of the 
comforting conception of immortality from 
the standpoint of the scientific physician." 
Lancet, London. 85 cents, net. Postpaid, 91 
cents. 



Memoirs of Two Famous Physicians 



HENRY INGERSOLL 
BOWDITCH 

BY V. Y. BOWDITCH 

" A DELIGHTFUL story of a noble and beauti- 
ful life, vividly and charmingly arranged 
and told for the most part in Dr. Bowditch's 
own words. Strength, truth, courage and 
religious faith fill his journals, which often 
show also eloquence, dramatic power and 
literary grace." Boston Medical and Sur- 
gical Journal. 2 vols. Illustrated. $5.00, net. 
Postpaid, $5.44. 



DR. JAMES 
JACKSON 

BY JAMES J. PUTNAM 

" As a record of old Newburyport and of Bos- 
ton during two thirds of the nineteenth cen- 
tury, with its intimate view of the growth 
of the medical profession, its glimpses of 
Harvard and of many well-known persons, 
the memoir has interest for more than the 
immediate members of the Clan Jackson." 
Harvard Graduates' Magazine. Illustrated. 
$2.50, net. Postpaid, $2.67. 



Latest Exposition of Subconscious Functioning 
The Subconscious 

BY JOSEPH JASTROW 

A POPULAR and interesting study of normal and abnormal subconscious activities including 
dream experiences, the actions of drugs, of hypnotic conditions, of trance-states, and the 
dissolution of personality in hysterical and allied disorders. The author is professor of psy- 
chology in the University of Wisconsin. $2.50, net. Postpaid, $2.66. 

"LITERARY LANDMARKS: A Visitor^s Guide to Points of 
Literary Interest in and about Boston" is invaluable to any one 
desiring to make a literary pilgrimage about Boston. With pictures 
of authors' homes. Paper, 25 cents, net, postpaid; cloth, 35 cents, 
net, postpaid. 

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN k COMPANY 

THE BOOKROOM, 4 PARK ST., BOSTON 



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WARD'S BOSTON 

FINE STATIONERY 




WRITING PAPER AND 
ENVELOPES 

" Boston Linen " " Krash " 

' ' Boston Bond " " Sawaco ' ' 

"Bunker Hill" "Mistral' 

"Puro" Photo Albums 

" A Line a Day " Books 

Records for five years on each page 

Puro " Post Card Albums Guest Books 

Inventory Books Address Books 

' Happenings in our Home " 

WARD'S BOSTON 

57-63 Franklin Street 



FIRE AND MARINE 

INSURANCE 

BOSTON 

Insurance Company 

Cajntal paid ni 
One Million Dollars 

Net Surplus 
Two Million Dollars 

RANSOM B. FULLER 
President 




]Jo)itfail to see the 
Allison Exhibit 

OF PHYSICIANS' 

OFFICE EQUIPMENT 

at the 

Ainerican Medical 

Association 

W. D. ALLISON COMPANY 

HOSTON OFFICE INDIANAPOLIS 

100 HOYLSTOX ST. 




The Belmont" 



Natural Spi 



Watc 



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THE Belmont Natural Spring Water has the Unanimous Indorsement of 
our Most Eminent Physicians regarding its remarkable purity and ex- 
cellence as a drinking water. 

77/r Jich/ioiit Sjrnug Water Cmupaiuj 

GEO. H COTTON & SONS, 71 Chestnut Street, Boston, Mass. 

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New England Mutual 

Life Insurance 

Company 

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 

Chartered, 1835 



¥ 



The Oldest, Largest and Strongest 
Massachusetts Company 

Assets $40,702,691.55 

Liabilities 36,000,270.95 

Surplus $4,102,420.60 

A Purely Mutual Company 
Paying Annual Distributions of Surplus 



Benj. F. Stevens President 

Alfred D. Foster Vice-President 

D. F. Appel Secretary 

Wi\i. B. Turner Asst. Secretary 

Herbert B. How Actuary 

Edwin W. Hwkiht, M.H. Medical Director 



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THE 

STATE MUTUAL LIFE 

ASSURANCE 

COMPANY 

OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS 

Was' incorporated in 184^4^ and is, therefore, one of the 

OLDEST LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES 

IN AMERICA 

Its business is conducted strictly upon the 
MUTUAL PLAN 

NO STOCK 

NO STOCKHOLDERS 

It is managed solely in the interests of its policy-holders 

c 

Writes all desirable forms of 
LIFE AND ENDOWMENT POLICIES 

PAYS DIVIDENDS ANNUALLY 

which will bear comparison with 

those of any Company which 

issues policies 

EMBODYING THE SAME ADVANTAGES 

c 

Does not write Tontine Insurance in any form 



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The Products of the PhiUips Laboratories 
have been so well known and employed for 
so many years, they require but little notice 
here. There will be interesting demonstra- 
tions at our exhibit. 



THE CHAS. H. PHILLIPS CHEMICAL CO. 
NEW YORK AND LONDON 



THOMAS 

Catgut 

Sterility and Strength 

Surgical Dressing Specialties 
Visit our LiCihoratory 

F. H. Thomas Company 

707 Boyhton Street Boston, Mass. 



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Fairchild Bros. & Foster 

will be pleased to meet the Members of 

The American Medical Association 

at their Exhibit in 
MECHANICS HALL, SPACE NO. 14. 



BD 118. 



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